{"product_id":"this-little-art","title":"This Little Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s \u003cem\u003eThis Little Art\u003c\/em\u003e is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter’s translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe writes about the loving relationship between André Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on an undeserted island. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eThis Little Art\u003c\/em\u003e, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Briggs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57745405444483,"sku":"9781910695456","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2011.png?v=1775649027","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.com\/products\/this-little-art","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}