Perfect for beginning students of Spanish, this affordable anthology is filled with 41 delightful stories and proverbs based on works of Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, Ricardo Palma, and other noted writers. Complete and faithful English translations are featured on the facing pages of the Spanish text. Exercises are also
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Indispensable learning aid includes definitions of common Spanish words arranged by such categories as foods, numbers, days of the week, months, colors, seasons and family. At the book’s heart is a dictionary, from a to zapato, where each word is used in a Spanish sentence (with English translation) demonstrating its proper
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The nine essays collected in The Craft of Translation contain plenty of theoretical speculation about “working in the space between languages.” Fortunately, though, most of the authors avoid getting bogged down in abstraction. Indeed, luminaries like William Weaver and Margaret Sayers Peden stick to a nuts-and-bolts analysis of exactly how one word gets chosen over another. And Gregory Rabassa’s opening salvo (“No Two Snowflakes Are Alike”), which addresses some of the basic dilemmas of literary translation, should fascinate beginners and polished professionals alike.
From Publishers Weekly
Perspicacious essays by nine wordsmiths carefully reconstruct the complex, highly elusive translation process. Stressing that the element of choice “bedevils the translator as he seeks to approach the language he is working from as closely as possible,” Gregory Rabassa ponders personal and cultural nuances, poetry, curses and oaths, (more…)
