In this witty and incisive memoir, Suzanne Jill Levine - winner of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation - establishes a new way of writing about a translators life. Levine analyses how her openness to new experiences, along with a knack...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765133729)
The 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation winner, Suzanne Jill Levines witty and incisive memoir of her life as a translator – of writers such as Manuel Puig and Guillermo Cabrera Infante....Loe edasi...
The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Cobra (1972) recounts the tale of a transvesti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jul-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: White Pine Press, ISBN-13: 9781945680731)
A deep meditation on the power and resonance of the sea.In a stunning collection of prose poems, Agosin reflect on the sea as a force of transformation, a creative force of energy, spirituality, and redem...Loe edasi...
Manuel Puigs dazzling and wholly original debut (New York Times Book Review) is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. Wh...Loe edasi...
* Voted one of the Big Fall Books from Indies by Publishers Weekly & LITHUBs Most Anticipated Books of 2019A dying womans attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the...Loe edasi...
Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.Silvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our lite...Loe edasi...
Cristina Rivera Garza, Suzanne Jill Levine, Aviva Kana
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: And Other Stories, ISBN-13: 9781911508687)
From the author of The Iliac Crest, one of Mexicos best novelists, a Lynchian noir where an Ex-Detective tracks a missing couple in a ravaged no-mans-land....Loe edasi...
This collection brings together contributions from translation theorists, linguists, and literary scholars to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization. The chapters depart...Loe edasi...
Regina Galasso, Jennifer Duprey, Evelyn Scaramella, Evelyn Scaramella, Suzanne Jill Levine, Ilan Stavans, Alicia Borinsky, Christopher Maurer, Nicholas Cifuentes Goodbody, Charles Hatfield...
Avenues of Translation explores how translation perpetuates, diversifies, deepens, and expands the literary production of cities in their greater cultural context, and how translation shapes an understanding of and access to a citys...Loe edasi...
Regina Galasso, Jennifer Duprey, Evelyn Scaramella, Evelyn Scaramella, Suzanne Jill Levine, Ilan Stavans, Alicia Borinsky, Christopher Maurer, Nicholas Cifuentes Goodbody, Charles Hatfield...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781684480562)
Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challe...Loe edasi...
Fiction. Latinx Studies. Womens Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana. A fairy tale run amok, THE TAIGA SYNDROME follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Oct-2017, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226207797)
The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost, where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought—and of love—can both inspire and enfeeble....Loe edasi...
This collection brings together contributions from translation theorists, linguists, and literary scholars to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization. The first section of...Loe edasi...
Guillermo Cabrena Infante, Donald Gardner, Suzanne Jill Levine, Enrico Santi
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Feb-2017, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Audible Studios on Brilliance, ISBN-13: 9781536669657)
Cabrera Infantes masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the US from Cuba. Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and Sternean typography - such as the section entitled Some Revelations, which c...Loe edasi...
Guillermo Cabrena Infante, Suzanne Jill Levine, Jonathan Davis
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2016, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Audible Studios on Brilliance, ISBN-13: 9781536623468)
Hidden behind a cloak of exotic mystery, Cuba is virtually unknown to American citizens. G. Cabrera Infante - in Infantes Inferno and several of his other novels - allows listeners to peek behind the curtain surrounding this island and see...Loe edasi...
Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havanas pre-Castro cabaret society. Cabrera Infantes mas...Loe edasi...
A collection of short stories set in Santruce, Puerto Rico, describes a tragic and outrageous world, populated by catty mothers, a dog owner whose pet was sent to a taxidermist and a Chosen One who helps fellow churchgoers find God. Original....Loe edasi...
Manuel Puigs masterful and ironic "detective novel" concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens--Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth--all combining to make a po...Loe edasi...
