Javier Marass Debt To Translation Sterne Browne Nabokov

This is a book about translation and literary influence. It takes as its subject Spain's most important contemporary novelist, Javier Marías (1951- ), who worked as a literary translator for a significant portion of his early career. Since then, he has maintained that translation had a crucial impact on the development of his writing style and his literary frame of reference. It examines his claims to the influence of three writers whose works he translated, Laurence Sterne, Sir Thomas Browne, and Vladimir Nabokov. It does so by engaging in close reading of his translations, examining how he meets the linguistic, syntactic, and cultural challenges they present. His prolonged engagement with their prose is then set alongside his own novels and short stories, the better to discern precisely how and in what ways his works have been shaped by their influence and through translation.--Book jacket.

Year

2012

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Editions

1

Pages

351

ISBN

9780199651337

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