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In this witty and incisive memoir, Suzanne Jill Levine â winner of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation â establishes a new way of writing about a translator's life.
Levine is a living legend in the translation world who credits her good fortune as a young translator to being in the right place at the right time: beginning in the era of the Cuban revolution, with growing interest in Latin America and its writers, and unfolding in New York City in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s and beyond.
In Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir, Levine interweaves her personal history and translation history in an important period. Levine analyzes how her openness to another culture and new experiences, along with a knack for translating the most difficult Latin American novels and positive interactions with her authors, took her from a modest New York background into a whole new literary and linguistic world. She also writes about how her friendship and then long relationship with Uruguayan writer and intellectual Emir RodrĂguez Monegal helped her develop her career, and how translating creatively subversive Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Manuel Puig â taking on the task of making spoken Cuban and Argentine into a new literary language in translation â was her true entry into the world of writing.
It is now common for translation scholars to talk about the "embodied" nature of the act of translation. Levine fleshes out that embodiment in provocative detail, with humor and style.
Levine is a living legend in the translation world who credits her good fortune as a young translator to being in the right place at the right time: beginning in the era of the Cuban revolution, with growing interest in Latin America and its writers, and unfolding in New York City in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s and beyond.
In Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir, Levine interweaves her personal history and translation history in an important period. Levine analyzes how her openness to another culture and new experiences, along with a knack for translating the most difficult Latin American novels and positive interactions with her authors, took her from a modest New York background into a whole new literary and linguistic world. She also writes about how her friendship and then long relationship with Uruguayan writer and intellectual Emir RodrĂguez Monegal helped her develop her career, and how translating creatively subversive Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Manuel Puig â taking on the task of making spoken Cuban and Argentine into a new literary language in translation â was her true entry into the world of writing.
It is now common for translation scholars to talk about the "embodied" nature of the act of translation. Levine fleshes out that embodiment in provocative detail, with humor and style.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Part One Close Encounters
- Prologue: The Latin American Boom
- 1 Beginnings
- 2 Living in Spanish
- 3 1968: Emir and Latin Literary Life
- 4 Swinging London with Cabrera Infante
- 5 1970s: The âBuenos Aires Affairâ in New York
- 6 With Bioy in the Bois de Boulogne
- Intermezzo
- Part Two Stops Along the Way
- EntrÂacte
- 7 Sketches of Susan
- 8 Three Feasts with Neruda
- 9 Carlos Fuentes on Central Park West
- 10 In Key West with Reinaldo Arenas
- Epilogue
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Translations by Suzanne Jill Levine
- About the Author
- Index
- Copyright