The Reverse Side of the Tapestry
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Publishing:24th Sep '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 24th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The Reverse Side of the Tapestry is the definition Cervantes gives of translation in Don Quixote; here, it is an essay on the translator's craft. Alberto Manguel has been a translator of many great writers - Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar into English; Katherine Mansfield and Paul Eluard into Spanish. In this book-length essay he delivers an eloquent meditation on the art of literary translation which, to Manguel's mind, is the keenest form of reading. Featuring original illustrations from Manguel himself.
'Manguel is a generous companion ... he remains, in the proper sense of the word, an 'amateur,' a lover rather than a specialist.'
George Steiner, The New Yorker
ISBN: 9781800175808
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
144 pages