Name: Desertar (in Spanish)
Price: 51.25 NZD
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Author: Ariana Harwicz
ISBN: 9788418504280

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ariana Harwicz

Mikaël Gómez Guthart

Publisher

Candaya

Synopsis "Desertar (in Spanish)"

"Lo que Mikal G¢mez Guthart y Ariana Harwicz dicen sobre laliteratura es fant stico. Este di logo es fascinante". CLAUDIOMAGRISUna escritora y un traductor dialogan sobre literatura, sobretraducci¢n y tambin sobre sus propias vidas. Se preguntan c¢moresistir a la otra lengua, a la ajena y no materna, que nos vuelveextranjeros de nosotros mismos. Trata tambin sobre la relaci¢n entrepol¡tica y traducci¢n: ¨Qu v¡nculos hay entre el lenguaje y lopol¡ticamente correcto hoy en d¡a?, ¨Hay que adaptar la traducci¢n alas nuevas tendencias de pensamiento, a las formas culturalescambiantes de cada poca? Un libro combativo contra el adormecimientocultural, contra las convenciones, contra el miedo.

Ariana Harwicz

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Ariana Harwicz was born in Buenos Aires in 1977 and has been living in the countryside in France since 2007. Her first novel, Matate, amor (2012), was published in English in 2017 under the title Die, My Love. A finalist for the First Book Award by the EIBF in 2017, the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Man Booker International in 2018, and the BTBA in 2020, Matate, amor has been adapted for the theater and in 2024 will be made into a film by Martin Scorsese, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence. Her fourth novel, Degenerado, was published by Anagrama in 2019. Her works have been adapted for the theater in various countries in Latin America and Europe. In 2021 she published Desertar, a book of conversations about translation and desertion of the mother tongue written together with Mikaël Gómez Guthart. Her stories appear in media such as Harper's, Granta, Letras Libres, Babelia, The White Review, Brick, Paris Review, The New Yorker, La Quinzaine littéraire, Quimera, and The Guardian, and in various anthologies. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2022 Anagrama compiled her first three novels in a volume titled Trilogía de la pasión. In 2023 she published El ruido de una época, an essay about literary Evil and contemporary extortions. She has also written the libretto for the opera Dementia, which will premiere at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in the 2025 season. Her most recent work is Perder el juicio.

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