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“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.” quote by Ann Goldstein — Download Open 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

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to…

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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.…

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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…

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The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

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I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

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That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

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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 out of it - or don't get out of it - that's part of it. But it's also the story of the mid-20th century in Italy so it's really like a social, historical and personal novel.…

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I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that…

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The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People…

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

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