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001			on1004091448
003			OCoLC
005			20180722230252.0
008			170918s2018 mau b 000 0 eng d
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dBDX _dERASA _dMYG _dYDX _dZCU _dNFG
020			_a9780262037990 _qhardcover
020			_a0262037998 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1004091448
092			_a410 _bP769
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aPolizzotti, Mark, _eauthor. _9213668
245	1	0	_aSympathy for the traitor : _ba translation manifesto / _cMark Polizzotti.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _c[2018]
300			_axv, 182 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction : ground rules -- _tIs translation possible (and what is it anyway)? -- _tSaints, martyrs, and spies -- _tPure language -- _tBeautifully unfaithful -- _tThe silences between -- _tSympathy for the traitor -- _tVerse and controverse -- _tOn the fringe -- _tAdam's apricot; or, Does translation matter?
520	8		_aAn engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't. For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty -- summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and provocative study, Mark Polizzotti attempts to reframe the debate along more fruitful lines. Eschewing both these easy polarities and the increasingly abstract discourse of translation theory, he brings the main questions into clearer focus: What is the ultimate goal of a translation? What does it mean to label a rendering "faithful"? (Faithful to what?) Is something inevitably lost in translation, and can something also be gained? Does translation matter, and if so, why? Unashamedly opinionated, both a manual and a manifesto, his book invites us too sympathize with the translator not as a "traitor" but as the author's creative partner. Polizzotti, himself a translator of authors from Patrick Modiano to Gustave Flaubert, explores what translation is and what it isn't, and how it does or doesn't work. Translation, he writes, "skirts the boundaries between art and craft, originality and replication, altruism and commerce, genius and hack work." In Sympathy for the Traitor, he shows us how to read not only translations but also the act of translation itself, treating it not as a problem to be solved but as an achievement to be celebrated -- something, as Goethe put it, "impossible, necessary, and important."
650		0	_aTranslating and interpreting. _9163490
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