If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is incalculable. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez'sOne Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar'sHopscotch have helped make these some of the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation ofOne Hundred Years was better than the Spanish original.) InIf This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents Rabassa offers a cool-headed and humorous defense of translation, laying out his views on the art of the craft. Anecdotal, and always illuminating,If This Be Treason traces Rabassa's career, from his boyhood on a New Hampshire farm, his school days "collecting" languages, the two-and-a-half years he spent overseas during WWII, his travels, until one day "I signed a contract to do my first translation of a long work [Cortazar'sHopscotch] for a commercial publisher." Rabassa concludes with his "rap sheet," a consideration of the various authors and the over 40 works he has translated. This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.

If This Be Treason : Translation and Its Dyscontents, Used [Hardcover]