{"id":276666,"date":"2010-02-19T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/02\/19\/borgess-collaborator\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:41:04","slug":"borgess-collaborator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/02\/19\/borgess-collaborator\/","title":{"rendered":"Borges&#39;s Collaborator"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In Buenos Aires in 1967 Borges began <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2010\/feb\/19\/jorge-luis-borges-di-giovanni\">an unusual working relationship<\/a> with a young Italian-American translator, Norman Thomas di Giovanni, whom he had met at Harvard. Di Giovanni had recently translated a collection of verse by Spanish poets, and asked Borges for a contribution. He got more than he bargained for: the privilege of translating several books of poetry and prose and an intercontinental job relocation scheme. The collaboration was all the stranger given the pair&#8217;s differing political ideas: di Giovanni was once an anarchist; Borges would go on to support Generals Videla and Pinochet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nonetheless, what they produced during this period were not simple translations. Some of their time was given to the collaborative composition of original versions of Borges&#8217;s stories in English. Borges&#8217;s grandmother was from the Midlands, and he was consequently fluent in English, albeit in a reportedly antiquated turn-of-the-century style. So di Giovanni earned equal writing credit for versions of stories including Tl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The Library of Babel and The Lottery in Babylon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Buenos Aires in 1967 Borges began an unusual working relationship with a young Italian-American translator, Norman Thomas di Giovanni, whom he had met at Harvard. Di Giovanni had recently translated a collection of verse by Spanish poets, and asked Borges for a contribution. He got more than he bargained for: the privilege of translating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,856,30756],"class_list":["post-276666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-norman-thomas-di-giovanni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349496,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276666\/revisions\/349496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}