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The New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations
Book by Cohen, J. M.
736 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1960
About the author
J.M. Cohen
74 books3 followersJohn Michael Cohen was a prolific translator of European literature into English.
Cohen launched his translation career with the first English translation of poems by Boris Pasternak, then unknown outside the Soviet Union. His translation of Pasternak garnered praise from American poet John Ashbery, in his book Other Traditions.
In 1946, on the strength of a commission from Penguin Books for a major translation of Don Quixote, Cohen quit his teaching job to dedicate himself full-time to writing and translation.
In addition to his translations of major works of Spanish and French literature for Penguin, Cohen also edited several important anthologies of Spanish and Latin American literature, as well as many of the Penguin Classics.
He played an instrumental role in the Latin Boom of the 1960s by translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Fuentes, and by bringing the works of Gabriel García Márquez to the attention of his future English publisher.
He also wrote a number of works of literary criticism and biography.
Cohen launched his translation career with the first English translation of poems by Boris Pasternak, then unknown outside the Soviet Union. His translation of Pasternak garnered praise from American poet John Ashbery, in his book Other Traditions.
In 1946, on the strength of a commission from Penguin Books for a major translation of Don Quixote, Cohen quit his teaching job to dedicate himself full-time to writing and translation.
In addition to his translations of major works of Spanish and French literature for Penguin, Cohen also edited several important anthologies of Spanish and Latin American literature, as well as many of the Penguin Classics.
He played an instrumental role in the Latin Boom of the 1960s by translating works by Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Fuentes, and by bringing the works of Gabriel García Márquez to the attention of his future English publisher.
He also wrote a number of works of literary criticism and biography.
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March 26, 2019
I liked this book! A very polished collection of the quotes by all the writers of repute. This is good for the readers who understand the gravity of literature and have invested a part of their lives in studying it.
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September 27, 2011This is part of a boxed set, New Penguin Box of Quotations.
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