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Title Barbara Wright : translation as art / edited by Madeleine Renouard and Debra Kelly.

Publication Info. Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations.
Series Scholarly series
Dalkey Archive scholarly series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Description based on print version record.
Contents Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Portraits; Barbara, a portrait sketch; A Tribute to Barbara Wright; Working with Barbara Wright; Aspects of Barbara Wright's Literary Translations; Writing Erudite Delirium; UBU ROI: a brilliant debut; Grabinoulor Has Fun with Language and Makes New Friends: The First Book of Grabinoulor and beyond; The Artist on her Trapeze: Barbara Wright's 99 variations on a theme by Raymond Queneau; Translating Beckett before Beckett: the translation of Eleutheria; Barbara Wright translates Pinget's Le Chrysanthème: which voice in English?
Nathalie Sarraute and the Strangeness of LanguageBarbara Wright Archives; Locating Barbara Wright's archive sources; The Barbara Wright Archive at the Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington: A Personal Memoir; Filmscript; Robert Pinget's 15 Rue des Lilas; Synopsis; Note; Presentation; Filmscript; Bibliography: Barbara Wright's principal translations; Barbara Wright: Timeline; Photographs; Appraisals, reviews; Index; Contributors; Copyright.
Summary This wonderful collection of texts by and about Barbara Wright-"the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature"--Begins the work of properly commemorating a figure toward whom all of English letters owes an unpayable debt.
Subject Wright, Barbara, 1915-2009.
Wright, Barbara, 1915-2009. (OCoLC)fst01734176
French language -- Translating.
Translating and interpreting.
Translators -- Great Britain -- Biography.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling.
French language -- Translating. (OCoLC)fst00934651
Translating and interpreting. (OCoLC)fst01154795
Translators. (OCoLC)fst01154833
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Added Author Renouard, Madeleine.
Kelly, Debra.
Other Form: Print version: Barbara Wright. First edition 9781564788863 (DLC) 2013007424 (OCoLC)835104620
ISBN 9781564789860 (electronic bk.)
1564789861 (electronic bk.)
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