{"product_id":"9780811216654","title":"If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Favorite Book of the Year for 2005.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel García Márquez's \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e and Julio Cortázar's \u003ci\u003eHopscotch\u003c\/i\u003e have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (García Márquez was known to say that the English translation of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years\u003c\/i\u003e was better than the Spanish original.) In \u003ci\u003eIf This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents\u003c\/i\u003e, Rabassa offers a cool-headed and humorous defense of translation, laying out his views on the translator's art. Anecdotal and always illuminating, Rabassa traces his career from a boyhood on a New Hampshire farm, his school days \"collecting\" languages, the two and a half years he spent overseas during WWII, and his South American travels, until one day \"I signed a contract to do my first translation of a long work [Cortázar's \u003ci\u003eHopscotch\u003c\/i\u003e] for a commercial publisher.\" Additionally, Rabassa offers us his \"rap sheet,\" a consideration of the various authors and the over 40 works he has translated. This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.  ","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008282444016,"sku":"9780811216654","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811216654_p0.jpg?v=1763743067","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811216654","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}