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About this audiobook
Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa Lahiri
With an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the author
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.
With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle's
Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci's
Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino's popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question "Why Italian?," and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.
Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English,
Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri's most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator's art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.
Audiobook details
GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 40 mins
Narrated bySneha Mathan, Jhumpa Lahiri
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 17, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, Introduction
8Chapter 7 , Substitution
2Chapter 1, Why Italian?
9Chapter 8 , Extraordinary Translation
3Chapter 2 , Containers
10Chapter 9 , Language
4Chapter 3, Juxtaposition
11Chapter 10 , Calvino Abroad
5Chapter 4, In Praise of Echo
12Afterword
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6Chapter 5 , An Ode to the Might Optative
13Acknowledgements , Closing Annos
7Chapter 6, Where I Find Myself
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