The Reverse Side of the Tapestry by Manguel, Alberto
£14.99
Author: Manguel, Alberto
Translation & interpretation
Published on 24 September 2026 by CARCANET PRESS LTD (Lives and Letters) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 106 pages, 44 black and white illustrations
134 x 216 x 9 | 134g
1 in stock
Description
The Reverse Side of the Tapestry is the definition Cervantes gives of translation in Don Quixote; here, it is an essay on the translator’s craft. Alberto Manguel has been a translator of many great writers – Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar into English; Katherine Mansfield and Paul Eluard into Spanish. In this book-length essay he delivers an eloquent meditation on the art of literary translation which, to Manguel’s mind, is the keenest form of reading. Featuring original illustrations from Manguel himself.
