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Barbara Wright
Renouard, Madeleine. Ed(S): Kelly, Debra
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Description for Barbara Wright
Paperback. Editor(s): Kelly, Debra. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; CFP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the most innovative French literature of the last hundred years: a world without Alfred Jarry's "Ubu," Raymond Queneau's "Zazie," and Robert Pinget's "Monsieur Songe" scarcely bears thinking about. This wonderful collection of texts about and by Barbara Wright--including work by David Bellos, Breon Mitchell, and Nick Wadley, as well as a previously unpublished screenplay written and translated by Wright in collaboration with Robert Pinget--begins the ... Read more
Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the most innovative French literature of the last hundred years: a world without Alfred Jarry's "Ubu," Raymond Queneau's "Zazie," and Robert Pinget's "Monsieur Songe" scarcely bears thinking about. This wonderful collection of texts about and by Barbara Wright--including work by David Bellos, Breon Mitchell, and Nick Wadley, as well as a previously unpublished screenplay written and translated by Wright in collaboration with Robert Pinget--begins the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564788863
SKU
V9781564788863
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Ref
99-15
About Renouard, Madeleine. Ed(S): Kelly, Debra
Debra Kelly is Professor of French and Francophone Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, Director of the Group for War and Culture Studies, and Editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. She has published widely in textual and visual studies and cultural memory, and on several of the authors translated by Barbara Wright. Debra Kelly ... Read more
Reviews for Barbara Wright
Both a useful resource and a fitting memorial to one of translation's modern virtuosos. Times Literary Supplement