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An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh,

is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking on reading, writing, and living with the works of others.

fierce, and timely thinking on reading, writing, and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a

Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait

starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex, and intensely relational activity. She recounts

of translation as a compelling, complex, and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter’s translations of Thomas Mann and their

the story of Helen Lowe-Porter’s translations of Thomas Mann and their posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between André

posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between André Gide and his translator, Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously

Gide and his translator, Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little

made a table, for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Briggs

Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny, and utterly

emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny, and utterly original.

original.