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Daniel Hahn - If This Be Magic, Inbunden

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If This Be Magic

The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

Av Daniel Hahn

Del i serien Canongate Books

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Why might Hamlet be even longer in Italian? How does the story of Romeo and Juliet begin . . . in Thai? How do you build a joke in German, or recreate a rhyme in Japanese? And why are Lady Macbeth's pronouns such a problem?What does it mean to translate Shakespeare? When we change all the poetry, all the wordplay, all the syntax - all the words! - is it still Shakespeare? And is it still any good?Daniel Hahn, seasoned translator and Shakespeare fanatic, will change the way you think about language itself. Ranging widely across Shakespeare's works, and across the world's languages, this book explores why we choose the words we do and what effect they have. No knowledge of any particular language is required, though a bit of patience for the nerdiest of close reading is desirable. This micro-attention to detail reveals anew the joy of Shakespeare, celebrates creativity and revels in the power of words.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-04-09
  • Mått: 228 x 37 x 158 mm
  • Vikt: 590 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Canongate Books
  • Antal sidor: 416
  • Förlag: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781805301622
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Daniel Hahn is an award-winning translator, author and editor. His translations include novels from a dozen countries, as well as short fiction, wide-ranging non-fiction, children's books and plays. He is the author of Catching Fire: A Translation Diary, and editor of a new edition of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He has been on the board of a number of organisations that work with literature, literacy and free speech. He is currently editing The Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories (with Padma Viswanathan) and translating a Mexican novel.

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Learned but cheerful and chatty . . . This is a book that forces any reader to think deeply about the building blocks of Shakespeare's language . . . The tone is that of an enthusiastic professor inviting his students to continue the lecture in the pub

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