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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
David Bellos
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Description for Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Paperback. How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - and makes us who we are. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CBX; CFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - and makes us who we are.
Selected by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2011
'A wonderful, witty book ... richly original, endlessly fascinating ... for anyone interested in words' Economist, Books of the Year
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Product Details
Publisher
Particular
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241954300
SKU
V9780241954300
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99-99
About David Bellos
David Bellos is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature at Princeton University, where he also teaches Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books and articles on nineteenth-century fiction, alongside biographies of three icons of French culture in the twentieth century: Georges Perec, Jacques Tati and Romain Gary. He is also a well-known translator and the author ... Read more
Reviews for Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
In the guise of a book about translation this is a richly original cultural history ... A book for anyone interested in words, language and cultural anthropology. Mr Bellos's fascination with his subject is itself endlessly fascinating
The Economist
For anyone with a passing interest in language this work is enthralling ... A wonderful celebration of the sheer ... Read more
The Economist
For anyone with a passing interest in language this work is enthralling ... A wonderful celebration of the sheer ... Read more