Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

出版者:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

作者:David Bellos

页数:384

出版时间:2011-10-11

价格:USD 27.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780865478572

图书标签:翻译Translation语言英文书English美国关于翻译英文

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Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means—whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the ways we use translation, from the historical roots of written language to the stylistic choices of Ingmar Bergman, from the United Nations General Assembly to the significance of James Cameron’s Avatar. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across human experience to describe why translation sits deep within us all, and why we need it in so many situations, from the spread of religion to our appreciation of literature; indeed, Bellos claims that all writers are by definition translators. Written with joie de vivre, reveling both in misunderstanding and communication, littered with wonderful asides, it promises any reader new eyes through which to understand the world.

In the words of Bellos: “The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same—that we can share the same broad and narrow kinds of feelings, information, understandings, and so forth. Without both of these suppositions, translation could not exist. Nor could anything we would like to call social life. Translation is another name for the human condition.”

用户评价

Good overview; am considering making it the textbook for my class next semester.

终于在2012年结束前啃掉了这本书内牛满面TAT 在勉强看懂的部分里，不感兴趣的地方嫌略啰嗦，感兴趣的地方还是比较好玩的…（文盲的废话

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/14/142309214/meaning-of-everything-often-lost-in-translation http://www.economist.com/node/21528592

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/14/142309214/meaning-of-everything-often-lost-in-translation http://www.economist.com/node/21528592

Can a book be less captivating? Style and depth are horridly inconsistent, humour is smirk-worthy at its best and cringe-inducing at its worst. It's a little shocking that there's a Penguin classics edition out there