An Homage to Jerome: Patron Saint of Translators - Softcover

Larbaud, Valery

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9780910395090: An Homage to Jerome: Patron Saint of Translators

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ISBN 10: 0910395098 ISBN 13: 9780910395090

Publisher: Marlboro Press, 1984

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Larbaud's involvements with translation extended throughout his life. Having produced an outstanding translation of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner while still a schoolboy, he set about learning six languages and exploring the literatures of a dozen countries. Larbaud was the first Frenchman to study or translate Samuel Butler, Chesterton, Conrad, Hardy, and Stevenson; it was he who was responsible for the French translation of Ulysses.

Chronologically among his last works, the volume Sous l'invocation de Saint J�r�me opens with this essay celebrating the exemplary figure and mighty achievement of the patron saint of translators: it was Saint Jerome who translated the Bible from Greek into Latin. To Saint Jerome the Christian West owes a large part of the Vulgate, its Book. In Saint Jerome all subsequent translators have had an ancestor and a model.

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A major mover-and-shaker in 20th-century French letters, Valery Larbaud spent much of his career translating such high-cholestorol stylists as James Joyce and Walt Whitman. He knew what he spoke of, then, when he composed An Homage to Jerome: Patron Saint of Translators. This is an elegant, lyrical valentine to a profession that Larbaud loved.

About the Author:

In France, Valery Larbaud occupies an important position in 20th century literature. Born in Vichy in 1881, he taught himself 6 languages at an early age and set out to bring world literature into French. He was the first to translate Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Butler, Walt Whitman, and James Joyce (supervising the French translation of Ulysses), among many others. A writer of poetry as well as innovative prose, Larbaud had his career cut short by a stroke, and spent his last 20 years confined to his home. He died in 1957.

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