{"product_id":"translating-myself-and-others","title":"Translating Myself and Others","description":"\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslating Myself and Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeaturing essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslating Myself and Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Lahiri, Jhumpa\u003cbr\u003eFormat: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e208 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMay 17, 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thryft Singapore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44318068408601,"sku":"P306.92.L34","price":23.54,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":44318068441369,"sku":"P306.92.L35","price":18.83,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":44318068474137,"sku":"P306.92.L36","price":15.06,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":44318068506905,"sku":"P306.92.L37","price":12.05,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":44318068539673,"sku":"P306.92.L38","price":9.64,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/products\/photo_2023-01-01_21-34-53.jpg?v=1717738037","url":"https:\/\/thryft.sbs\/products\/translating-myself-and-others","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}