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Event

Title:: On Translation and Biography
When:: Wednesday, 04/21 7:00pm
Where:: Elebash Recital Hall -
Category:: Events at the Center for the Humanities

Description

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

April 21st 2010, Wednesday, 7:00pm, Elebash Recital Hall

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This discussion will feature such translators, writers, and biographers as Gregory Rabassa (CUNY), Benjamin Moser (books editor at Harper’s and author of the acclaimed Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector), and Frederick Brown (author of award-winning biographies of Cocteau, Zola, Flaubert, whose new book is For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus), on the problems of biography, language, nuance, and interpretation in multiple languages.

Co-sponsored by the Leon Levy Center for Biography

Venue

Location:: Elebash Recital Hall