The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People have mentioned that Naples is like a character in the novels. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own version of it. And every translator would probably have a different version. But I think that that's what keeps the writers from being individual in English. They may be my English,… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share
Trying to take a feeling from one language, and express it in another is naturally that's my goal. You can't possibly achieve that in… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached.… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
