{"id":287416,"date":"2011-10-07T18:41:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/10\/07\/the-bridge-series-david-bellos\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:16:56","slug":"the-bridge-series-david-bellos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/10\/07\/the-bridge-series-david-bellos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge Series: David Bellos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we featured David Bellos’s Is That a Fish in Your Ear?<\/em> on our Read This Next,<\/a> website and after reading the sample we made available (along with the interview and full review), I’m sure that everyone in the greater NYC<\/span> area will want to go see Bellos talk about his book as part of The Bridge Series. <\/p>\n

To be more specific, David will be talking at McNally Jackson (52 Prince Street, between Lafayette & Mulberry) on Thursday, October 13th at 7pm. <\/p>\n

Here’s some info from The Bridge<\/a> website:<\/p>\n

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\u201cForget the fish\u2014it\u2019s David Bellos you want in your ear when the talk is about translation. Bellos dispels many of the gloomy truisms of the trade and reminds us what an infinitely flexible instrument the English language (or any language) is. Sparkling, independent-minded analysis of everything from Nabokov\u2019s insecurities to Google Translate\u2019s felicities fuels a tender\u2014even romantic\u2014account of our relationship with words.\u201d
\n\u2014Natasha Wimmer, translator of Roberto Bola\u00f1o\u2019s Savage Detectives<\/em> and 2666<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cIn the guise of a book about translation this is a richly original cultural history . . . A book for anyone interested in words, language and cultural anthropology. Mr Bellos\u2019s fascination with his subject is itself endlessly fascinating.\u201d
\n\u2014The Economist<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?<\/em> offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means\u2014whether we wish to understand Ast\u00e9rix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the ways we use translation, from the historical roots of written language to the stylistic choices of Ingmar Bergman, from the United Nations General Assembly to the significance of James Cameron\u2019s Avatar. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across human experience to describe why translation sits deep within us all, and why we need it in so many situations, from the spread of religion to our appreciation of literature; indeed, Bellos claims that all writers are by definition translators. Written with joie de vivre, reveling both in misunderstanding and communication, littered with wonderful asides, it promises any reader new eyes through which to understand the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Definitely go check this out—I can guarantee that it will be fascinating, fun, and interesting. <\/p>\n

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