Translating Myself and Others
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary transla…
Want to Read $ 9.99"To translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"To translate is to alter one’s linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
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13. Translating Myself and Others
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