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EAN : 9782221253748

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Pages : 486

Size : 135 x 215 mm

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At Moments, the Floor Tilts Strangely

Nicolas Richard

Release date : 02/09/2021

A translator’s user’s manual

Nicolas Richard, a renowned literary translator, took pleasure in writing this offbeat, fascinating, and substantial work on translation through a catalog of real-life projects he’s worked on over the course of his career. We learn that a translator feeds on questions, curiosity, and doubt—even if that means retranslating yourself years... Nicolas Richard, a renowned literary translator, took pleasure in writing this offbeat, fascinating, and substantial work on translation through a catalog of real-life projects he’s worked on over the course of his career. We learn that a translator feeds on questions, curiosity, and doubt—even if that means retranslating yourself years later—because “at every moment, the floor tilts strangely.” That’s how he found himself diving into improbable but necessary research on fishing (to translate Thomas McGuane’s Upstream) and forming privileged, and at times comical, relationships with authors and publishers. In this book, we will cross paths with Richard Brautigan, Richard Powers, Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas Pynchon, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Art Spiegelman, but also Woody Allen, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, and even Keith Richards, Nick Cave, Bruce Springsteen, and Barack Obama. Nicolas Richard makes absolutely no mention of theory here, but rather sings the praises of his artisanal profession in which each text comes with its own load of questions, but also marvels of language, both in French and English, and literature

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EAN : 9782221253748

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Pages : 486

Size : 135 x 215 mm

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