Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto

by Mark Polizzotti

Book Overview

An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.

For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty--summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and provocative study, Mark Polizzotti...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262037998
• ISBN13: 9780262037990
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher