On Translation: Reflections and Conversations

On Translation: Reflections and Conversations
ISBN-10
9057550717
ISBN-13
9789057550713
Series
On Translation
Category
Art
Pages
117
Language
English
Published
2000-01-01
Publisher
Harwood Academic Pub
Author
Edmund Keeley

Description

The novelist, translator, and critic Edmund Keeley has been translating and studying the Modern Greek poets for over forty-five years. He began thinking of translation as a craft; but, as he points out in the preface to this fascinating collection of his thoughts and conversations about this complex process, "in the hands of its best practitioners, (translation is) a form of art that deserves abide on equal terms with all other literary arts".In this unusual study, Keeley also deals with the often neglected topic of the commerce of translation. Additionally he provides valuable insights into his collaboration as a translator with his wife, Mary, with Philip Sherrard and George Savidis, and with several of the poets he has translated. These partnerships have resulted in making the poetry of Cavafy, Elytis, Ritsos, Seferis, and Sikelianos internationally known and admired in the English-speaking world.

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