Life behind an Author's Works--Memoir of a Translator: How I Came to Translate Witold Gombrowicz and the Many Faces of Thom

by Danuta Borchardt

This book is my memoir of translating from Polish into English the novels of Witold Gombrowicz, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. John Updike has described him as "A master of verbal burlesque, a connoisseur of psychological blackmail ... one of the profoundest of late moderns, with one of the lightest touches."The memoir covers about twenty years of my life, from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. It deals with the nitty-gritty of the craft,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521040419
• ISBN13: 9781521040416
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"