Literature

Translating Myself and Others

    Narrator
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Sneha Mathan

Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa Lahiri
With an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the author


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May 17, 2022
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2022
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5 hours 40 minutes

Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.

With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid鈥檚 myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle鈥檚 Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci鈥檚 Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino鈥檚 popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question 鈥淲hy Italian?,鈥� and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.

Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri鈥檚 most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator鈥檚 art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.

Awards and Recognition

  • Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
  • One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated 快色直播 of the Year
  • One of VULTURE'S 49 快色直播 We Can't Wait to Read
  • One of Literary Hub's Best Reviewed Nonfiction 快色直播 of the Year
  • One of Literary Hub's Best Reviewed Essay Collections of the Year
  • A Literary Hub Best Essay Collection of 2022
  • A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year