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In other words / Jhumpa Lahiri; Ann Goldstein

By: Contributor(s): Language: eng Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2016Description: 233 p.; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781101911464
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.54
LOC classification:
  • PS 3562  L183i 2016
Contents:
Author's note -- La traversata = The crossing -- Il dizionario = The dictionary -- Il colpo di fulmine = Love at first sight -- L'esilio = Exile -- Le conversazioni = The conversations -- La rinuncia = The renunciation -- Leggere con il dizionario = Reading with a dictionary -- Il raccolto delle parole = Gathering words -- Il diario = The diary -- Il racconto = The story -- Lo scambio = The exchange -- Il riparo fragile = The fragile shelter -- L'impossibilità = Impossibility -- Venezia = Venice -- L'imperfetto = The imperfect -- L'adolescente peloso = The hairy adolescent -- Il secondo esilio = The second exile -- Il muro = The wall -- Il triangolo = The triangle -- La metamorfosi = The metamorphosis -- Sondare = Plumbing the depths -- L'impalcatura = The scaffolding -- Penombra = Half-light -- Postfazione = Afterword.
Summary: At heart, this is a love story -- of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write -- initially in her journal -- solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.
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Vertaling van: In altre parole. - Milaan : Ugo Guanda Editore, ?2015.

Een gelauwerd schrijfster wil koste wat het kost de Italiaanse taal machtig worden

Author's note --
La traversata = The crossing --
Il dizionario = The dictionary --
Il colpo di fulmine = Love at first sight --
L'esilio = Exile --
Le conversazioni = The conversations --
La rinuncia = The renunciation --
Leggere con il dizionario = Reading with a dictionary --
Il raccolto delle parole = Gathering words --
Il diario = The diary --
Il racconto = The story --
Lo scambio = The exchange --
Il riparo fragile = The fragile shelter --
L'impossibilità = Impossibility --
Venezia = Venice --
L'imperfetto = The imperfect --
L'adolescente peloso = The hairy adolescent --
Il secondo esilio = The second exile --
Il muro = The wall --
Il triangolo = The triangle --
La metamorfosi = The metamorphosis --
Sondare = Plumbing the depths --
L'impalcatura = The scaffolding --
Penombra = Half-light --
Postfazione = Afterword.


At heart, this is a love story -- of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write -- initially in her journal -- solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.

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