My Language Is a Jealous Lover
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My Language Is a Jealous Lover

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My Language Is a Jealous Lover

About this book

Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. 

My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue, from Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov to Ágota Kristóf and Joseph Brodsky. Author Adrián N. Bravi weaves their stories in with his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian, thinking and writing in the language of his new life while recalling that of his childhood. Bravi bears witness to the frustrations, the soul-searching, the pain, and the joys of embracing another language.

 

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Yes, you can access My Language Is a Jealous Lover by Adrián N. Bravi, Victoria Offredi Poletto,Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Literary Biographies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series page
  3. Other Voices of Italy: Italian and Transnational Texts in Translation
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Translators’ Note
  9. Foreword
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Childhood
  12. 2. Displacements
  13. 3. My Aunt’s Languages
  14. 4. The Maternity of Language I
  15. 5. The Language of Love
  16. 6. The Hospitality of Language
  17. 7. The Enemy Language
  18. 8. The Possessiveness of Languages
  19. 9. The Fluidity of Language
  20. 10. Without Style
  21. 11. The Scent of the Panther
  22. 12. Prisoners of Our Own Language
  23. 13. Two Short Stories: Landolfi and Kosztolányi
  24. 14. Two Old Children
  25. 15. Poetics of Chaos
  26. 16. Exile
  27. 17. Writing in Another Language
  28. 18. False Friends
  29. 19. Interference
  30. 20. Every Foreigner Is in Their Own Way a Translator
  31. 21. Some Cases of Self-Translation
  32. 22. Identity and National Language
  33. 23. The Language of Death
  34. 24. Language as Property
  35. 25. The Abandonment of Language
  36. 26. The Difficulty of Abandoning One’s Own Language
  37. 27. Language as a Line of Defense
  38. 28. The Maternity of Language II
  39. Notes
  40. Bibliography
  41. Notes on Contributors