Barbara Wright: Translation as Art

by Kelly, Debra
ISBN: 9781564788863
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Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the most innovative French literature of the last hundred years: a world without Alfred Jarry's "Ubu," Raymond Queneau's "Zazie," and Robert Pinget's "Monsieur Songe" scarcely bears thinking about. This wonderful collection of texts about and by Barbara Wright--including work by David Bellos, Breon Mitchell, and Nick Wadley, as well as a previously unpublished screenplay written and translated by Wright in collaboration with Robert Pinget--begins the work of properly commemorating a figure toward whom all of English letters owes an unpayable debt.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Kelly, Debra
  • ISBN: 9781564788863
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 340
  • Publication Year: 2013
Language: English