{"id":1283,"date":"2017-11-16T18:55:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2020-02-10T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:09:06","slug":"this-little-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"This Little Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not often that you read a book that seems to be written at least partly with you in mind. \u00a0Kate Briggs’s This Little Art<\/em>, from Fitzcarraldo Editions, is about translation. That simple declaration says nothing about the suspense, humour, pacing, revelation and recognition a reader — this reader, at least, found in it. \u00a0At the heart of the text is Briggs’ experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes for The Preparation of the Novel,\u00a0<\/em>a course of lectures cut short when Barthes was killed in a traffic accident. \u00a0Briggs shares her joys and doubts, observations, speculations and determination as she goes about her work. The writing takes on a form I’ve never encountered before — not fiction, but with tools of strategic repetition, scene-setting, detective work. \u00a0It becomes a splendid adventure, and a kind of tacit permission to let all those frequent exursions — on-line, in the library, in questions to fellow English-speakers become their own story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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