The subversive scribe : translating Latin American fiction
Levine, Suzanne Jill
The subversive scribe : translating Latin American fiction / Suzanne Jill Levine - 1st Dalkey Archive ed - Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press , 2009. - xv, 196 p. ; 23 cm. - Dalkey Archive scholarly series .
Originally published: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
To most of us, "subversion" means political subversion, but 'The Subversive Scribe' is about collaboration not with an enemy, but with texts and between writers. Here she considers the act of translation itself to be a form of subversion. Rather than regret translation's shortcomings, Levine stresses how translation is itself a creative act, unearthing a version lying dormant beneath an original work, and animating it, like some mad scientist, in order to create a text illuminated and motivated by the original.
9781564785633
2009024056
Spanish American fiction----Translation into English----20th century
Spanish language----Translation into English
Translating and interpreting----Philosophy
PQ6044 / .L48 2009
860.4 LEV
The subversive scribe : translating Latin American fiction / Suzanne Jill Levine - 1st Dalkey Archive ed - Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press , 2009. - xv, 196 p. ; 23 cm. - Dalkey Archive scholarly series .
Originally published: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
To most of us, "subversion" means political subversion, but 'The Subversive Scribe' is about collaboration not with an enemy, but with texts and between writers. Here she considers the act of translation itself to be a form of subversion. Rather than regret translation's shortcomings, Levine stresses how translation is itself a creative act, unearthing a version lying dormant beneath an original work, and animating it, like some mad scientist, in order to create a text illuminated and motivated by the original.
9781564785633
2009024056
Spanish American fiction----Translation into English----20th century
Spanish language----Translation into English
Translating and interpreting----Philosophy
PQ6044 / .L48 2009
860.4 LEV
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