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  title info:
    title: Javier Marías's debt to translation
    sub title: Sterne, Browne, Nabokov
  name:
    name part: Wood, Gareth
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (360 pages)
  abstract: This is a book about translation and literary influence. It takes as its subject Spain's most important contemporary novelist, Javier Marías (1951- ), who worked as a literary translator for a significant portion of his early career. Since then, he has maintained that translation had a crucial impact on the development of his writing style and his literary frame of reference. It examines his claims to the influence of three writers whose works he translated, Laurence Sterne, Sir Thomas Browne, and Vladimir Nabokov. It does so by engaging in close reading of his translations, examining how he meets the linguistic, syntactic, and cultural challenges they present. His prolonged engagement with their prose is then set alongside his own novels and short stories, the better to discernprecisely how and in what ways his works have been shaped by their influence and through translation. Hence this study begins by asking why Marías should have turned to translation in the cultural landscape of Spain in the 1970s and how the ideological standpoints that animated his decision affect the way he translates. His translation of Sterne's Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is set alongside his pseudo-autobiographical novel Negra espalda del tiempo (Dark Back of Time), while his translation of Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial is thenanalysed in tandem with that produced by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Subsequent chapters examine how Browne's prose has shaped Marías's thinking on oblivion, posterity, and time. The final chapters offer an analysis of the partial translation and palimpsest of Lolita he undertook in the early 1990s and of his most ambitiousnovel to date, Tu rostro mañana (Your Face Tomorrow), as a work in which characterization is underpinned by both literary allusion and the hydridization of works Marías has translated.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Gareth J. Wood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-sp---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Marías, Javier
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sterne, Laurence
      name part: 1713-1768
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sir
      name part: Browne, Thomas
      name part: 1605-1682
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
      name part: 1899-1977
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sir
      name part: Browne, Thomas
      name part: 1605-1682
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Marías, Javier
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
      name part: 1899-1977
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sterne, Laurence
      name part: 1713-1768
  subject:
    topic: Translators
    geographic: Spain
  subject:
    topic: Translating and interpreting
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  subject:
    topic: Translating and interpreting
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Translators
  subject:
    geographic: Spain
  classification: PQ6663.A7218
  classification: 863.6/4
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  record info:
    record content source: CDX
    record creation date: 120119
    record change date: 20260318190927.1
    record identifier: in00005708569
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng