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Author_Alberto Manguel
Borges
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Eluard
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Essays
forthcoming
Illustrated
Literature
Mansfield
Reading
Translation
Yourcenar
Product details
- ISBN 9781800175808
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Reverse Side of the Tapestry is the definition Cervantes gives of translation in Don Quixote; here, it is an essay on the translator's craft. Alberto Manguel has been a translator of many great writers - Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar into English; Katherine Mansfield and Paul Eluard into Spanish. In this book-length essay he delivers an eloquent meditation on the art of literary translation which, to Manguel's mind, is the keenest form of reading. Featuring original illustrations from Manguel himself.
Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 and is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor and a former Director of the National Library of Argentina. He lives in Lisbon, Portugal.
