An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others.
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Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us This portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity.
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others
