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Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an English-speaking readership and audience some of the most innovative French literature of the last hundred years: a world without Alfred Jarry's Ubu, Raymond Queneau's Zazie, and Robert Pinget's Monsieur Songe scarcely bears thinking about. This wonderful collection of texts about and by Barbara Wright -- including work by David Bellos, Breon Mitchell, and Nick Wadley, as well as a previously unpublished screenplay written and translated by Wright in collaboration with Robert Pinget -- begins the work of properly commemorating a figure toward whom all of English letters owes an unpayable debt.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Barbara Wright
• Subtitle: Translation as Art
• Author: Madeleine Renouard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• EAN: 9781564788863
• ISBN: 1564788865
• ID: 04813939
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 476 g
• Dimensions: 213 × 140 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. September 2013

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