The Art of Translation: Oberon Masters Series
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Overview
“I try to follow the rule laid down by perhaps the greatest translator of all, John Dryden, who maintained that a translator should – and I paraphrase – make the version as entertaining as possible, while at the same time remaining as faithful as possible to the spirit of the original” – Ranjit Bolt.
In this book, Ranjit Bolt takes what is essentially a practitioner’s view of the art of literary translation. His observations are born of a quarter of a century’s experience of translating for a living, especially for the theatre. While rooted in practice, however, this survey does not shy away from theory, but is packed with allusion to great translation theorists such as Walter Benjamin and John Dryden, as well as adumbrating Bolt’s own theoretical stance.
This will be of interest to students, academics, practitioners and theatre buffs.
- Title: The Art of Translation
- Author: Ranjit Bolt
- Series: Oberon Masters Series
- Publisher: Oberon Books
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 64
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781849433433, 9781840028652, 1840028653, 1849433437
- Resource ID: LLS:9781849433433
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T14:01:16Z
RANJIT BOLT is a British playwright and translator born in Manchester to Anglo-Indian parents and is the nephew of playwright and screen-writer Robert Bolt. His father is literary critic Sydney Bolt. Amongst his many translations are Tartuffe, The Grouch, Lysistrata, The Liar, The Art of Seduction, Mirandolina, The Oedipus Plays, The Marriage of Figaro, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Real Don Juan and Merry Wives, The Musical.