Dove mi trovo

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In 2018, on sabbatical, I was able to move back to Rome for an entire year for the book’s publication. I thought that perhaps, once she’d finished the translation, I could weigh in on one or two matters, and that my role would be respectfully collaborative. Con la presente registrazione, dichiaro di avere almeno 14 anni e di aver letto ed accettato le Condizioni d’Uso del sito, le Condizioni Generali di Vendita e l’Informativa Privacy fornita ai sensi degli artt. Lahiri and her sister were educated in English, which she came to regard as a bullying “stepmother”. Italian translation, for me, has always been a way to maintain contact with the language I love when I am far away from it.

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A middle aged woman, unnamed, living in some city (probably somewhere in Italy) tells her 'stories' of her daily encounters. As I was writing Dove mi trovo, the thought of it being anything other than an Italian text felt irrelevant.or the very correct use in the real Dante’s Italian, like "ambascia" or " vescicose" reading them warmed my heart.

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What unites all the pages is this sense of total abandonment to the impossibility of enjoying life, everything is crushed by this dark and sad vision of oblivion and sadness. Never mind trying to achieve a personal tone of voice, as distinguishable as the one in my mother language. Definitely though a worthwhile read and one I would not be surprised at all to see longlisted for the Booker – although this time the International 2022 version (the 2021 prize being the first to feature a self-translated book). I'm about to leave but then I stop, I take off my jacket and start looking for a necklace to perk up my dress, it must be here somewhere, in some jewelry box (though I prefer 'joy box' for 'portagioie,' which, come to think of it , is the most beautiful of Italian words).Cliccando su “Conferma” dichiari che il contenuto da te inserito è conforme alle Condizioni Generali d’Uso del Sito ed alle Linee Guida sui Contenuti Vietati.

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E poi ci sono i colleghi di lavoro in mezzo ai quali non riesce ad ambientarsi, le amiche, gli amici, e «lui», un’ombra che la conforta e la turba. Different from her other books, one can see at various times, glimpses of old self, her previous works. She had understood, initially, why I’d been reluctant to translate the book myself, and when I told her I was having a change of heart, she wasn’t surprised.The pared down style is incredibly refreshing; for this introvert it's like entering a conversation without all the small talk bullshit that is my personal nails down a chalkboard. Talk about not resting on your laurels: yesterday’s Publishers Weekly deals roundup slipped in the news that Jhumpa Lahiri has teamed up with Princeton classics professor Yelena Baraz on a new translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses that highlights “transformation, loss of agency, and reclamation of power in one of the most influential works of Western culture. The joys of being alone and mental tranquillity when she is on her own, writing while sitting in the sun on the balcony of her flat are larded with her observations of others from her outsider’s point of view, contemplating what is and what could have been.

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The story unfolds in vignettes, sometimes only a single page long, all triggered by her location, with chapter titles such as: On the Street, In the Piazza, In My Head, At the Beautician, etc. I could be riding a train or traveling by car or flying in a plane, among the clouds that drift and spread on all sides like a mass of jellyfish in the air. Questa frase scompiglia brevemente la mia malinconia come un sussulto che fa oscillare i rami, che fa tremare le foglie di un albero.In an interview she deemed ‘the idea of my own creation in Italian not having a life in English yet interesting’, assuming that for translating her book she 'will have to go into a place where she is two people’. Even though I can't draw, I'd like one of those sketchbooks, hand bound with thick cream-colored paper. Al Ministero degli Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale sono attribuite le funzioni e i compiti spettanti allo Stato in materia di rapporti politici, economici, sociali e culturali con l’estero. There is only one real clue in the Italian that suggests the Roman setting, and that is the reference to the cobblestones, the sampietrini, distinctive to the historic city center.