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Penguin’s New Translation of Pinocchio Aims to Recapture Collodi’s Original

Disney distorted the personality of the central character, replaced the message at the heart of the fable, and changed the setting…but Pinocchio is a story with many, many, levels of cultural, social, political, culinary and religious (particularly the “prodigal son” and resurrection) significance. It’s a text far more complex than generally realized--as are Alice in Wonderland and Gulliver’s Travels…

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Ann Goldstein: “Star Translator” Who Has Emerged from the Shadow of the Author

“There are those who say that every generation needs a new translation: why a work itself doesn’t age whereas a translation does, is in some way mysterious. But translations seem more closely tied to their time, and the style of their time, and can easily come to sound dated…When you spend so much time in an author’s mind you almost can’t help feeling a kind of intimacy…. In the case of The Neapolitan Novels, I essentially spent four years not only with the author but with her characters. When I finished the third book, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, I felt bereft: I was so used to having the characters, the words, the rhythms of the sentences in my mind that my life seemed to be missing an important and active part… every work leaves some part of itself—a word, a phrase, a sensation—in me.”

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The NY Public Library Honors Primo Levi’s Centenary with Day-Long Reading

If This Is a Man (also known as Survival in Auschwitz) was published in 1947, only three years after Levi’s liberation. At first the book faced modest sales, yet ten years later, when it was re-published, his first-hand account of survival was embraced by an international audience. To honor this, the Library has brought together authors, artists, and scholars from across the world to pay tribute to Levi.

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Richard Gere Reads Italo Calvino with the “Baron’s Daughter”

The launch of the new translation of Calvino's novel “The Baron in the Trees” gives NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò the chance to bring Giovanna Calvino and Richard Gere together. “‘The Baron in the Trees’ is the world of dreams I would like to live”, says the actor. Gere sounds eloquent, savvy, sophisticated in the way he associates the writer’s work to other masters of international literature

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