Translating Myself and Others - Jhumpa Lahiri
Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Narrator: Sneha Mathan
Tags: Misc. Non-fiction, Autobiography & Biographies, Adults
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 Prizewinning 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 Ovids myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotles Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramscis Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvinos 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 singula
