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Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature: A Translator's Visible Legacy
María Constanza Guzmán
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Description for Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature: A Translator's Visible Legacy
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez's Cien años de soledad, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortàzar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels and to this day he is one of the most prominent English translators of literature from Spanish and Portuguese. Rabassa's role was pivotal in the internationalization of several Latin American writers; it led to the formation of a canon and, significantly, to the most prevalent image of Latin American literature in the world. Even ... Read more
This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez's Cien años de soledad, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortàzar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels and to this day he is one of the most prominent English translators of literature from Spanish and Portuguese. Rabassa's role was pivotal in the internationalization of several Latin American writers; it led to the formation of a canon and, significantly, to the most prevalent image of Latin American literature in the world. Even ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611480085
SKU
V9781611480085
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99-15
About María Constanza Guzmán
María Constanza Guzmán is associate professor at York University in Toronto, Canada, where she is appointed to the School of Translation, the Department of Hispanic Studies, and the Graduate Program in Humanities.
Reviews for Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature: A Translator's Visible Legacy
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude achieved the status of a classic in the English-reading world because of Rabassa's translation of it from the Spanish. As one of the preeminent translators of contemporary Spanish- and Portuguese-language literatures, Rabassa has introduced Anglophone readers to the works of numerous Latin American and Luso-Brazilian novelists, so this examination of his ideas ... Read more