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The Genius of Language
Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue
Taschenbuch von Wendy Lesser
Sprache: Englisch

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Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser's call for original essays on the subject of language-the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the Chinese language with which she grew up. Leonard Michaels spoke only Yiddish until he was five, and still found its traces in his English language writing. Belgian-born Luc Sante loved his French Tintin and his Sartre, but only in English could he find "words of one syllable” that evoke American bars and bus stops. And although Louis Begley writes novels in English and addresses family members in Polish, he still speaks French with his wife-the language of their courtship. As intimate as one's dreams, as private as a secret identity, these essays examine and reveal the writers' pride, pain, and pleasure in learning a new tongue, revisiting an old one, and reconciling the joys and frustrations of each.
Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser's call for original essays on the subject of language-the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the Chinese language with which she grew up. Leonard Michaels spoke only Yiddish until he was five, and still found its traces in his English language writing. Belgian-born Luc Sante loved his French Tintin and his Sartre, but only in English could he find "words of one syllable” that evoke American bars and bus stops. And although Louis Begley writes novels in English and addresses family members in Polish, he still speaks French with his wife-the language of their courtship. As intimate as one's dreams, as private as a secret identity, these essays examine and reveal the writers' pride, pain, and pleasure in learning a new tongue, revisiting an old one, and reconciling the joys and frustrations of each.
Über den Autor
Wendy Lesser
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Wendy Lesser

BANGLA
The Way Back Bharati Mukherjee

CHINESE
Yes and No Amy Tan

CZECH
Trouble with Language Josef Skvorecky

DUTCH
Circus Biped Bert Keizer

FRENCH
French Without Tears Luc Sante

GERMAN
Prelude Thomas Laqueur

GIKUYU
Recovering the Original Ngugi wa Thiong'o

GREEK
Split Self Nicholas Papandreou

ITALIAN
Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald

KOREAN
Personal and Singular Ha-yun Jung

POLISH
On Being an Orphaned Writer Louis Begley

RUSSIAN
The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye Gary Shteyngart

SCOTS
Boswell and Mrs. Miller James Campbell

SPANISH
Footnotes to a Double Life Ariel Dorfman

YIDDISH
My Yiddish Leonard Michaels

About the Contributors
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781400033232
ISBN-10: 1400033233
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lesser, Wendy
Redaktion: Lesser, Wendy
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 132 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Wendy Lesser
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.07.2005
Gewicht: 0,29 kg
Artikel-ID: 102432238
Über den Autor
Wendy Lesser
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Wendy Lesser

BANGLA
The Way Back Bharati Mukherjee

CHINESE
Yes and No Amy Tan

CZECH
Trouble with Language Josef Skvorecky

DUTCH
Circus Biped Bert Keizer

FRENCH
French Without Tears Luc Sante

GERMAN
Prelude Thomas Laqueur

GIKUYU
Recovering the Original Ngugi wa Thiong'o

GREEK
Split Self Nicholas Papandreou

ITALIAN
Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald

KOREAN
Personal and Singular Ha-yun Jung

POLISH
On Being an Orphaned Writer Louis Begley

RUSSIAN
The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye Gary Shteyngart

SCOTS
Boswell and Mrs. Miller James Campbell

SPANISH
Footnotes to a Double Life Ariel Dorfman

YIDDISH
My Yiddish Leonard Michaels

About the Contributors
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781400033232
ISBN-10: 1400033233
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lesser, Wendy
Redaktion: Lesser, Wendy
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 132 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Wendy Lesser
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.07.2005
Gewicht: 0,29 kg
Artikel-ID: 102432238
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