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Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Owner's information written on the inside of the front cover. ; Approx. 6" wide by 9 3/8". The Cahiers Series, Center for Writers & Translators, The Arts Arena. Contents consist of: 1) The Tale of the Preacher and His Man Bumpkin by Alexander Pushkin, parallel text in Russian and English. 2) The Translator's Inner Voice. Inscribed by the author on the title page, signed with first name only. ; 36 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An Italian naif from the town of Reggio Emilia travels America and his home province, reflecting as he does on the oddity of what he finds. Through his unguarded eyes, the world is revealed in all its fundamental strangeness, pathos and humour. If there are blues to be heard, then this is partly because any description or explanation, however successful it may be, is bound to go awry when it is required to pass into another language. At once story and reflection, essay and narrative, this cahier by one of Italy s most eminent translators and translation theorists is a celebration of the space between languages, which both unites and divides us. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In between two new and previously unpublished poems, Alan Jenkins offers his refreshing translation of Rimbauds' masterpiece: 'Le Bateau ivre'. With images by Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Bill Pownall (whose work was a source of inspiration for the poems here), this cahier sails down several rivers, placid and turbulent, and finds there more than one drunken boat. In between two new and previously unpublished poems, Alan Jenkins offers his translation of Rimbaud's 'Le Bateau'. With images by Rimbaud, Verlaine and Bill Pownall, this cahier sails down several rivers, placid and turbulent, and finds there more than one drunken boat. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In this cahier, Chevillard addresses important topics like turning fifty, water-closets, an enemy, returns, theories and eyes. Using the first letters of the keyboard as his guide, the author assembles an eclectic medley of reflections and autobiographical experiences. Yet his attempt to subject content to the formal order of a French keyboard is twice undermined: through its translation into English, and by the nature of the texts themselves, which demonstrate insistently the power exercised by disorder over writing. the text is complemented by images by the renowned French engraver and artist Philippe Favier. 12 color plates Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Favier, Philippe (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A highly intelligent girl becomes entranced by the sounds that birds make. In time, this develops into a fascination - an obsession even - with avian communication; as an accomplished neuroscientist, she devotes her life to attempting to unlock the mystery of bird song. What celebrated novelist Neel Mukherjee explores here is the extent to which communication systems can exert a pull on the human psyche - as well as the costs and dangers that may await the individual who cedes to that pull. Mukherjee's gripping and poignant tale is accompanied by finely-detailed paintings by Chinese artist Lu Chao in which the relation between earth and air, weight and weightlessness, is constantly in question. The Cahiers Series continues its exploration of translation in all its aspects with this new tale by the award-winning novelist Neel Mukherjee. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Cahiers Series continues its exploration of translation in all its aspects with this account by retired professor of Russian literature Michael Finke of his fascinating with flight. Deskbound and myopic, ever since his childhood Finke has dreamt of flight. After decades as a university professor whose secret vice was to spend weekends soaring in lightplanes and gliders, he came across little-studied writings of leading Russian authors of the 1920s who, at the direction of Soviet authorities, engaged aviation as a signal promise of progress in Bolshevik Russia - another dream asking to be translated into reality. The resulting essay allows the literary scholar to meet the flier in an exploration of the sources and meanings of the several dreams inspired by flight. Placed alongside the text are paintings by the British artist Rachael Plummer, paintings which have their own oneiric quality, as airplanes disintegrate into abstraction, and as the offer of an aerial perspective renders landscape almost - but in the end not quite - legible. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Her Not All Her is a collage of voices about, from, and to the Swiss writer Robert Walser, by the Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It is a play, and has been performed as such, but there are no characters, no obvious action, and only the deepest possible engagement with Walser s language and personality. The text highlights what Jelinek calls the fundamental fragmentation of Walser's voice, revealing Walser as one of those people who, when they said I , did not mean themselves . At the same time, it shows Jelinek to be a virtuosic reader of classic European writers. "Her Not All Her" is a play about, from, and to the great Swiss writer Robert Walser, by the great Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It highlights what Jelinek calls 'the fundamental fragmentation' of Walser's voice, revealing Walser as 'one of those people who, when they said "I," did not mean themselves'. Presented here in a prize-winning translation by Damion Searls, it shows Jelinek to be an impassioned virtuoso reader of classic European writers. The cahier contains an essay by the Director of the Robert Walser Centre, Reto Sorg, and thirteen paintings by the British artist Thomas Newbolt. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This cahier was published to coincide with the Dutch premiere of the newly written opera Wagner Dream, directed by Pierre Audi and produced by De Nederlandse Opera. The cahier includes an interview with Jonathan Harvey, the composer of Wagner Dream, and Jean-Claude Carrire, the librettist. It contains an essay by Jonathan Harvey on contemporary music and its relation to Buddhist thought and practice. Six photographs are reproduced from the world premiere of Wagner Dream, as well as a detail from Jonathan Harvey s musical score, and a rare image of an ancient Indian ritual plaque. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Writer Kirsty Gunn meditates upon her childhood in New Zealand, revisiting in writing the landscapes she once explored by sight, sound and touch. In the process she uncovers what it is about these wild places in particular the part known as the bush that so moved, challenged, and disturbed her. Interweaving essay, memoir and narrative, she evokes the ways in which this landscape s very foreignness could also provide refuge to a child, and an escape from the suffocating cultural norms of colonial society. Accompanying the text is a series of images by artist Merran Gunn. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Bernard Turle offers a series of glimpses into the working life of a translator, an intimate A to Z of aspects of the craft and practice of translating that are usually overlooked in more theoretical accounts. What emerges is not just a portrait of this particular translator, of his origins, motivations, delights, and frustrations, but of the profession of the translator itself as one who, though he may assume various guises, is forever working to give new life to the words of others. The text is accompanied by images from the childhood of Cahiers Series Editor, Dan Gunn. Offers a window onto the working life of a translator, from craft and practice to motivations and frustrations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The seventh century poet Tumadir, known as al-Khansa' (a sobriquet that means 'the Snub-nosed Gazelle doe'), survived both her brothers. Her poetic output consists of dirges for her dead brothers. James Montgomery weaves a cahier around his translations from Arabic of a number of these dirges, interspersing observations on several other explorations of death and loss. Little-known Arabic poet in translation Highly personal text by Cambridge Professor of Arabic Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Shades of the Other Shore has come about through a collaboration between writer Jeffrey Greene and artist Ralph Petty. The two, writer and artist, share rural American beginnings, but have since discovered a new life in France, in sparsely populated French areas of Burgundy and the Ardche, respectively. Their cahier offers a deep mapping of their adopted regions: Greene s sequence of sketches and poems explores imagined correspondences between personal and historical ghosts tied to the seasons; Petty s watercolours record a journey to the source of a local river. The result is a rich artistic translation, through their American sensibilities, of the landscapes of their chosen homes. Offers a window onto the working life of a translator, from craft and practice to motivations and frustrations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In this cahier Paul Griffiths effects a multi-layered translation, taking a series of eleven Japanese Noh plays and turning them into stories in English. The reader will encounter spirit-beings set free, lovers lost and found, dreams and desires fulfilled, lessons learned from nature, and always a longing for the infinite, as the long, slow drama of each noh play is transformed into a short and moving tale. Interspersed and contrasting with the stories are ten photographs of contemporary Japan by John L. Tran which further explore the relation between theatricality and narrative, while offering hints of a very different vision of infinitude. Taking a series of eleven Japanese Noh plays and turning them into stories in English, this book features spirit-beings set free, lovers lost and found, dreams and desires fulfilled, lessons learned from nature, and always a longing for the infinite, as the long, slow drama of each Noh play is transformed into a short and moving tale. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Brownrigg explores border-crossing, cultural misunderstanding, touristic voyeurism and naivety, as her visitor attempts to navigate the environments she encounters. Accompanying the text are images by the celebrated British artist Tacita Dean which extend the traveller s journeys into spheres that turn almost uncanny in their combination of abstraction and realistic detail. A woman travels to seven "invisible" countries, and from the moment of arrival she is surprised, challenged, and disturbed by what she discovers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Four excerpts from Rachel Shihor s novella Yankinton have been selected, and translated from the Hebrew for this cahier. These poignant and humorous tales are as much about the act of recollection as they are about the remembered Tel Aviv of the 1940s. In a playful and yet muted style, Shihor tells of the everyday life of a child beginning to grasp her surroundings. Six works by the painter David Hendler further explore the city. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Cahiers Series continues its exploration of translation in all its aspects with this moving text dealing with days in the life of a general practitioner working in an area of Paris where most of her patients will be immigrants with a flimsy grasp of the French language. Inspired by his surroundings and community in Brooklyn, his travels, as well as his family's involvement in health-care and mass transit, Robert's work shares Milne's interest in our cities' hidden places that harbour the labour that sustains the bodies of those who are often deemed expendable, even unspeakable. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Daniel Albright gathers parables, poems, dreams, translations, written during a three-year period following the death of his father. Together, these form a moving record of a time of trouble, a tribute to people and objects lost, as well as offering a way of deflecting or evading even greater and less knowable harm. Accompanied by artwork by the poet and artist Peter Sacks, the cahier is an attempt to translate private experiences into something with public meaning. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Five tales, each of which stages an encounter between an acute sensibility and a city. Russian-born Olga Medvedkova reveals something of what may motivate travel curiosity, infatuation, uxorial affection, search for academic knowledge, acquisitiveness and what may lie behind that word, in its forms both loved and loathed: tourism. Writing in French rendered into English by renowned translator Richard Pevear, Olga Medvedkova lends her art-historian s eye to the particularity of place, intimating how every city offers its own specific lure and threat. ive tales, each of which stages an encounter between an acute sensibility and a city. Russian-born Olga Medvedkova reveals something of what may motivate travel curiosity, infatuation, uxorial affection, search for academic knowledge, acquisitiveness and what may lie behind that word, in its forms both loved and loathed: tourism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Through gathered letters and recordings, Van Niekerk recounts Olwagen s discovery of a vagrant who, without uttering anything intelligible, summons swans from Amsterdam s canals. The Swan Whisperer probes at the relationship between language and living, translation and writing, stories and truth. From an obsession with words to an obsession with dismantling them, Van Niekerk explores what stirs humans to translate. A story of doubles, cadence and swan whisperings, this cahier delves into the playfulness of sound in the Afrikaans language, and the necessity for listening in all translation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A man loves a woman, and immortalises their story on paper. The central conceit of Gorgeous is as old as storytelling itself, but Robert James Berry approaches this seemingly dusty form with extraordinary freshness. Each poem is a burst of colour, communicating a delight in the senses that is almost startling in its immediacy. From the fruit markets of Southeast Asia to the dishevelled hills of the British Isles, Berry traces the ups and downs of his protagonists relationship. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Sabarsky, C. (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In this cahier, American poet Idra Novey explores several notions of translation through two sequences of poems. In the first sequence, 'Letters to C,' she addresses the figure and the words of a writer she has recently translated, Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. In the second, 'Regarding Marmalade, Cognates, and Visitors,' Novey looks at the connections between language, translation, and the hosting of visitors, including her newborn son. Idra Novey's texts are in conversation with works by the artist Erica Baum - images of books that seem both to invite and resist attempts to read them. Explores several notions of translation through two sequences of poems. In the first sequence, the author addresses the figure and the words of a writer she has translated, Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. She also looks at the connections between language, translation, and the hosting of visitors, including her newborn son. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Simon Leys, novelist, unflinching cultural and political commentator, Sinologist, and occasional illustrator, presents here timely meditations on the experience and hazards of literary translation. Preceding his essay are observations on everything from demented tyrants to musical geniuses who gain insights from vacuum cleaners. Written with wit and concision, this cahier offers English-language readers a chance to get to know a writer who is renowned for his wisdom and insight as much as he is for his linguistic and literary expertise. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In twenty-five short chapters, Gospodinov explores how smugglers, writers and translators are all involved in transporting whatever may be desired, valued, missing, repressed, or forbidden. He adds a melancholic tone to his exploration by focusing on his childhood in Communist Bulgaria, and on the fantasies of other lives and other places that this childhood engendered. Drawings made specially to accompany the text, by award-winning Bulgarian animation and graphic artist Theodore Ushev, complete the cahier, adding a further layer to its exposition of border-crossing. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Ushev, Theodore (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. When Alix Cleo Roubaud died at the age of 31, she left behind a profound and deeply personal body of work exploring self-portraiture, life, illness, the body and death. Helene Giannecchini was the curator tasked with sorting through some six hundred photographs, letters, and other written documents belonging to the artist ahead of a posthumous retrospective held at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in 2014. But she had never met Alix Cleo Roubaud and this absence is felt keenly through her writing as she treads the boundaries between biography and fiction, life and art. Helene Giannecchini pieces together the fragments that remain of this fleeting but dazzling life, spotlighting the theoretical underpinnings of the photographer's ideas on the double, repetition and drawing out the influences of Wittgenstein and Gertrude Stein on her practice. Just as Alix Cleo Roubaud's art is approached through the notes jotted in her journal, and the material evidence of trial prints and chemical experiments from the darkroom, so too Helene Giannecchini respects the interstices in her account, allowing the blind spots of memory to be. This translation has been occasioned by a new showing of Alix Cleo Roubaud's work alongside that of Francesca Woodman, Shala Miller, Carla Williams and Justine Kurland in a group exhibition curated by Moyra Davey for Galerie Buchholz, New York. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. At the heart of this book lies the question of how far the idea of a priest as a wounded healer can be stretched. It is written as a diary-cum-memoir by Father Joseph, a middle-aged priest whose faith and life are in tatters, who is sent on an eight-day silent retreat by his kindly, sympathetic bishop. Apart from short daily meetings with a spiritual director, he speaks to no one. But he writes. Page after page, exploring the state of his soul, the loss of his vocation, his sexual addiction, and the events which are destroying his life. At the heart of The Final Retreat lies the question of how far the idea of a priest as a 'wounded healer' can be stretched. It is written as a diary-cum-memoir by Father Joseph, a middle-aged priest whose faith and life are in tatters, who is sent on an eight-day silent retreat by his kindly, sympathetic bishop. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Wandering in and about London, the characters of On Wandsworth Bridge often seem larger than life. Never reduced to stereotypes, though, they develop and come alive with a touching humanity and humour that makes the reader care deeply about their actions and fates. At the heart of Hattie Pond's novel is a hero's journey--though that hero has few redeeming features, is wholly unaware of his importance, and ultimately inflicts great harm on those around him. The story's underlying theme builds on C. P. Snow's theory of two cultures--the sciences and the humanities--and explores the dangers of allowing a separation between them. Pond also weaves minor science fiction elements and social satire throughout the novel's structure; amid an otherwise realist novel, for example, we encounter the multiverse and time travel. These are not merely plot mechanisms or purely for comedic effect, however--Pond bases her depictions on existing scientific theories. Presented through delightful dialogue and vivid depiction, the characters of On Wandsworth Bridge will remain with readers long after the last page. Wandering in and about London, the characters of On Wandsworth Bridge often seem larger than life. At the heart of Hattie Pond's novel is a hero's journey--though that hero has few redeeming features, is wholly unaware of his importance, and ultimately inflicts great harm on those around him. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Stubbe, Num (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Jizef Czapski (1896-1993) was an artist, author, critic, and one of the founders of the influential Polish emigr(c) monthly Kultura (published in Paris until 2000). But who was the real Czapski? This cahier is a bold attempt by Keith Botsford to answer this question. Violating convention, he attempts to write Czapski's autobiography, or a biography from within . Besides Czapski's own words, twelve of his paintings bear testimony to this momentous life Jozef Czapski (1896-1993) was an artist, author, critic, and one of the founders of the influential Polish emigre monthly Kultura (published in Paris until 2000). But who was the real Czapski? This cahier is a bold attempt by Keith Botsford to answer this question. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Situated in the heart of historic London, Mayfair is one of the capital's most affluent quarters. It is also home to people from all walks of life and diverse social backgrounds. Two Mayfairs sit by side by side - one out in the open, the other all but invisible. In this book, shot over a period of three years, Loren Kaye casts a sympathetic gaze on this vibrant and complex neighbourhood, exposing its many layers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In this photographic essay the author explores the relationship between typography and the visual world around us. Each letter of the English version of the Roman alphabet is refracted, appearing in four dimensions: as the world presenting itself in the shape of a letter; as an intended letter in space; as a flat letter on paper, and finally in the manner of a pure geometric form embodied in a typeface. Familiar letterforms are presented in fresh, surprising ways, forming an homage to the beauty of type and a reflection on its ubiquity in our visual understanding of the world around us. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis are often grouped together to form one discrete textual unit. The stories that make up this cycle - Creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Cain's sacri ce, Noah's ark and the flood, and the Tower of Babel - are among the most enduring stories recounted in the history of Western culture and form the basis of its common heritage, transcending religious, national and geographical boundaries. In the vein of luminaries such as Franz Kafka and Soren Kierkegaard, the book treads the path from Eden to Babel in the form of thirty irreverent philosophically-minded variations, playing on themes of creation, hope and sacrifice. Finally, a diverting burlesque called The Invention of Desire describes what really happened in the Garden to that notorious threesome: Woman, Man and Serpent. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …