An Alastair Reid Reader: Selected Prose and Poetry (The Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers) - Hardcover

Reid, Alastair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874516927 ISBN 13: 9780874516920

Publisher: Middlebury College, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Reid, Alastair

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This new volume in the Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers collects the essays, criticism, musings, poetry and translations of Scottish-born Reid, a longtime New Yorker contributor whose "wandering life" has taken him to Spain, London, Latin America, many corners of the U.S. and beyond. Reid's intelligence seems most engaged by the role and metaphor of translation, not only in the sense of rendering one language into another but of serving as a translator between distinct realms of experience, or between experience and the impulse to capture it in words. He is a mediator whose authority is necessarily improvisational, subject to change and addressing it as a theme. This may be why his pieces that relate directly to travel, uprooting and literary translation-an art of change-are the most interesting here. Especially in "Basilisks' Eggs," where he discusses the challenges of literary translation, and in "Digging Up Scotland," an excavation of his personal and national origins, Reid writes trenchantly about the vagaries of living and working in "a number of different countries, a number of different languages."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Middlebury College
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0874516927
• ISBN 13: 9780874516920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255