Books
by David Bellos
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Is that a Fish in Your Ear?: The Amazing Adventure of Translation |
Translation sounds so boring and often is, but not after reading this fascinating and most entertaining in depth analysis, packed with a great deal of original information. The author is Professor of French and Comparative Literature as well as being Head of the Translation department at Harvard. For anyone interested in words, as we all are here, this is a wonderful, witty book, the basic theme being: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people?
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 113 Summer 2024) |
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