Translating the Garden

by M.R. Ghanoonparvar

Book Overview

Translating a work of literature from one language to another is an art form, in which the translated work becomes a "conduit" through which the reader of one language may pass into the cultural world of another. For the translator, the process of translation offers an intimate experience of the text that is perhaps unavailable even to the author. And yet, as M. R. Ghanoonparvar observes at the outset of this book, "every translation is inevitably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292728565
• ISBN13: 9780292728561
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"