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Titre: Impostures Condition: Neuf EAN: 9781479800841 ISBN: 9781479800841 Publisher: New York University Press Format: Relié Date de publication: 2020-05-29 Item Height: 229 Item Length: 152.00 Traducteur: Michael Cooperson Contributeur: Michael Cooperson (Translated by), Abdelfattah Kilito (Foreword by) Sujet: Anglais ISBN-10: 1479800848 Description: One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the Year Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Category
Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature. Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East—we encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty different registers of English, from the distinctive literary styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English. Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation. An English-only edition. Pays/Région de fabrication: US Auteur: al-Ḥarīrī Genre: Literary Criticism Série: Library of Arabic Literature Année de publication: 2020
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