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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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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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My “Awkward” Struggles as an Italian in New York (It’s Not About the Food)

If you ask Google to translate "awkward" into italian, you get several results, but in Italy we don't have "awkwardness". For example Jane Tylus, a professor of Italian at New York University, confirmed that there is no direct Italian translation of the word “awkward” intended as discomfort in a social setting. I came up with a solution: Awkward-phobic Americans should take a vacation to Italy.

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