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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

byDavid Bellos

Translation and the Meaning of Everything

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'Please read David Bellos's brilliant book', Michael Hofmann, Guardian

'In his marvellous study of the nature of translation...[David Bellos] has set out to make it fun...Essential reading for anyone with even a vague interest in language and translation - in short, it is a triumph', Shaun Whiteside, Independent

'A dazzyingly inventive book', Adam Thirlwell, New York Times

'Is That A Fish In Your Ear? is spiced with good and provocative things. At once erudite and unpretentious...[it is a] scintillating bouillabaisse', Frederic Raphael, Literary Review

In the guise of a book about translation this is a richly original cultural history ... A book for anyone interested in words, language and cultural anthropology. Mr Bellos's fascination with his subject is itself endlessly fascinating

The Economist

About David Bellos

David Bellos is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature at Princeton University, where he also teaches Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books and articles on nineteenth-century fiction, alongside biographies of three icons of French culture in the twentieth century: Georges Perec, Jacques Tati and Romain Gary. He is also a well-known translator and the author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation. David Bellos was recently awarded the rank of officier in the Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241954300
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 22mm x 128mm
  • Weight: 298g
  • Price: £10.99
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