An unscrupulous womanizer, as devoid of morals now as he once was full of idealistic fervor, returns to Italy, where he is wanted for a series of crimes. To earn himself the guise of respectability, he is willing to go as far as murder.
The Translator's Invisibility traces the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day. It shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English, and investigates the cu
Venuti exposes what he refers to as the 'scandals of translation' by looking at the relationship between translation and the practices which at once need and marginalize it. The book moves between different languages, cultures, periods, disciplines and in
The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on twentieth-century developments. With introductory essays prefacing each section, the boo
Il mondo di Dino Buzzati è un mondo magico, misterioso, molto attraente per il lettore che, incuriosito, giunge al termine della lettura con il fiato sospeso, nell’attesa di conoscere quell’unica verità che capovolge tutto ciò che fino a quel momen
One terrible winter, King Leander leads his troop of bears down the mountains of Sicily in search of food. Along their treacherous and sometimes heartbreaking journey, the bears encounter an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a mag
"Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism." So says David G. Hartwell in his introduction to The Science Fiction Century, an anthology spanning a hundred years of
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 8804480963"È che tutti vivono così, come se da un'ora all'altra dovesse arrivare qualcuno; non l'assalto di un nemico, ma qualcuno, sconosciuto, non si può dire chi." È proprio Bàrnabo,
Antonio, uomo di mezz’età appartenente alla Milano bene, si innamora di qualcuno che non potrà mai essere suo: Laide, ragazza giovanissima, che per vivere si vende agli altri. E così Antonio, affogando piano piano nelle sue emozioni, decide di doverl
