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 attempts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262537028
• ISBN13: 9780262537025
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.8" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher