by Richard Dixon Translation is a solitary pursuit. Our closest work companion is our dictionary. Then, if we’re lucky, we find a group of virtual colleagues to whom we can turn for help. We translate toward our mother tongue from the language we know best though many of us have few opportunities to meet those … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.41: Vice Versa: Translators Across the Language Divide
by Richard Dixon The World Machine is a vivid novelistic portrayal of rural life in postwar Italy. Its narrator, a small-time farmer, is one of life’s misfits, a young man who generally manages to play his cards wrongly. He is the keeper of a great truth: that people are machines built by other beings who … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.14: The Nature of Reality and the Human Condition in 1950s Rural Italy, in Paolo Volponi’s The World Machine
by Katherine Gregor To read Part One of this article, click here. If Italian dialectal idioms are sometimes hard to convey into standard Italian, translating them into English would make Hercules throw in the towel. When considering how to translate dialect I rejected the option of using a UK regional dialect as an alternative because … Continue reading #ItalianLitMonth n.11: The Sorrows and Joys of Translating Italian Dialects: Part Two
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