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After Babel

Aspects of Language and Translation

By George Steiner

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| Paperback | 9780192880932

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`Translation has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found a scholar who is a match for the task.' Sunday Times First published in 1975, After Babel constituted the first systematic investigation of the theory and processes of translation since the eighteenth century. Continue

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Translation, it might be argued, is something that should be done rather than discussed. “Is life worth living? Depends on the liver. La vie vaut-elle la peine? Question de foie.” Very neat, but what is there to say here that is not self-evident? Des ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

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In spite of the many criticisms, this book still remains one of the fundamental works on the theme of translation. Being himself a sort of translator (Steiner is a multilingual native speaker), the author is fully aware both of the creative challenges and the limits of translation, of which he under ... (continue)

In spite of the many criticisms, this book still remains one of the fundamental works on the theme of translation. Being himself a sort of translator (Steiner is a multilingual native speaker), the author is fully aware both of the creative challenges and the limits of translation, of which he underlines a history and a complete phenomenology, eventually reaffirming its empirical and theoretical chances. Together with his work on creation, "After Babel" is probably George Steiner's main work.

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