Anna Aslanyan

Dancing on Ropes

Translators and the Balance of History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6199
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 130mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9781788162647
• ISBN-10: 1788162641
• Artikelnr.: 62537075

Autorenporträt

Anna Aslanyan is a journalist, translator and public service interpreter. She contributes to the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian and other UK-based publications, writing about books and arts. Her translations from Russian include Post-Post Soviet? Art, Politics and Society in Russia at the Turn of the Decade, a collection of essays edited by Ekaterina Degot et al. (University of Chicago Press, 2013); contemporary short stories for Best European Fiction (Dalkey Archive, 2013, 2018); and A Journey to Inner Africa, a 19th-century travelogue by Egor Kovalevsky (Amherst College Press, 2020). Her popular history of translation, Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History, was published by Profile in May 2021.

Rezensionen

Translation is a matter of life and death - and not only because it is poorly paid. That's the thrilling, rather chilling, message of this wonderful history by translator and interpreter Anna Aslanyan, who blesses jaw-dropping and entertaining tales with an insider's insight Rosie Goldsmith FT