Is that a Fish in Your Ear?: The Amazing Adventure of Translation

Is that a Fish in Your Ear?: The Amazing Adventure of Translation
ISBN-10
0241954304
ISBN-13
9780241954300
Series
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Category
Translating and interpreting
Pages
390
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Penguin UK
Author
David Bellos

Description

How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This question is at the heart of David Bellos's funny, wise and life-affirming book, which shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - and makes us who we are. Selected by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2011 and as a National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist. 'A wonderful, witty book . . . richly original, endlessly fascinating . . . for anyone interested in words.' Economist, Books of the Year 'A scintillating bouillabaisse . . . spiced with good and provocative things.' Literary Review 'Dazzlingly inventive.' The New York Times 'Clear and lively . . . There is nothing quite like it.' Spectator 'A marvellous study of the nature of translation . . . essential reading - in short, it is a triumph.' Independent 'Enthralling . . . A wonderful celebration of the sheer diversity of language.' Scotsman 'An exhilarating work that takes up a subject we thought we understood - or knew we didn't - and then makes us see it afresh.' Washington Post

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