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.
Contains:-The Seven Messengers-The End of the World-Appointment with Einstein-The Saucer Has Landed-The Survivor's Story-Prank-The Walls of Anagoor-Human Greatness-The Colomber-The Writer's Secret-The Bewitched Jacket-The Elevator-The Ubiquitous-The Wind-
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
