false 5547739 1 <i>That Mad Ache</i>, set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960’s, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her carefree, tranquil love for 50-year-old Charles, a gentle, reflective, and well-off businessman, and her sudden wild passion for 30-year-old Antoine, a hot-blooded, impulsive, and struggling editor. As Lucile explores these two versions of love, she vacillates in confusion, but in the end she must choose, and her heart’s instinct is surprising and poignant. Originally published under the title <i>La Chamade</i>, this new translation by Douglas Hofstadter returns a forgotten classic to English. In <i>Translator, Trader</i>, Douglas Hofstadter reflects on his personal act of devotion in rewriting Françoise Sagan’s novel <i>La Chamade</i> in English, and on the paradoxes that constantly plague any literary translator on all scales, ranging from the humblest of commas to entire chapters. Flatly rejecting the common wisdom that translators are inevitably traitors, Hofstadter proposes instead that translators are traders, and that translation, like musical performance, deserves high respect as a creative act. In his view, literary translation is the art of making subtle trades in which one sometimes loses and sometimes gains, often both losing and gaining at the same time. This view implies that there is no reason a translation cannot be as good as the original work, and that the result inevitably bears the stamp of the translator, much as a musical performance inevitably bears the stamp of its artists. Both a companion to the beloved Sagan novel and a singular meditation on translation, <i>Translator, Trader</i> is a witty and intimate exploration of words, ideas, communication, creation, and faithfulness. 5718799 1965 That Mad Ache total:25|5:4|4:10|3:9|2:2|1:0| 25 91 60 9 4 4 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 06:51:38 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 09:56:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 23:24:12 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 19:49:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 10:15:13 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 10:02:01 -0700 2009
okay so i realize i still haven't gotten anything down on this & so for now am just going to paste in an email i sent john after, pretty choppy & having followed a more in-de...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 29 06:20:52 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 06:25:07 -0700 2009 Antoine ruins that picture. He and Lucile hit it off at a dinner party in Paris and...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 17:46:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 17:50:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 19 11:37:50 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 11:50:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 21:43:31 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 21:47:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 16:16:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 10:50:42 -0700 2009
It's so refreshing to read a book with a protagonist full of flaws, kind and loving, yet weak and not noble. Lucile has lit...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 12:41:25 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 21:02:50 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 30 20:38:20 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 20:38:20 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Nov 19 11:35:42 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 11:35:42 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 20:49:59 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 20:49:59 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 07 06:58:23 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 06:58:23 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 20:44:50 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 20:44:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 07:49:52 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 07:49:52 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Oct 14 13:02:05 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 13:02:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 12 11:15:30 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 11:15:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 05 07:23:30 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 07:58:49 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Sep 23 12:08:11 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 12:08:11 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 16:20:58 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 16:20:58 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5547739