Издания и произведения

Книга выдающегося современного переводчика и писателя, лауреата Букеровской и Гонкуровской премий, посвящена тонкостям многогранной переводческой деятельности. «Я попытался охватить всю картину целиком, исследуя роль перевода в культурной, социальной и других сферах человеческой жизни. Мы совершим путешествие во времени и пространстве, переносясь из Шумера в Брюссель и Пекин, обратимся к комиксам и классической литературе, углубимся в дебри таких разных дисциплин, как антропология, лингвистика и информатика. Чем же на самом деле занимаются переводчики? Сколько разновидностей перевода существует? Что говорят нам проявления этой…

How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This question is at the heart of David Bellos's funny, wise and life-affirming book, which shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - and makes us who we are. Selected by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2011 and as a National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist.

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…

People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack…