Franca Cavagnoli Livres

"Questo libro nasce dal desiderio di condividere le mie riflessioni ed esperienze nel campo della traduzione e del suo insegnamento in corsi e workshop. La traduzione è, in quanto esperienza, riflessione. È prima di tutto un fare esperienza dell'opera da tradurre e nello stesso tempo della lingua in cui quell'opera è scritta e della cultura in cui è germinata. E subito dopo è un fare esperienza della lingua madre e della propria cultura, che deve accogliere, vincendo ogni possibile resistenza, la diversità linguistica e culturale del romanzo o del racconto da tradurre. [...] Il percorso proposto in queste pagine è di graduale difficoltà ed è stato pensato in primo luogo per i lettori forti, per chi ha una viva curiosità per la lettura ed è desideroso di accostarsi alla traduzione e di entrare nella sua officina. Ne può trarre inoltre beneficio chi studia traduzione, ma frequenta corsi di laurea in cui ci si limita a impartire nozioni teoriche e non si lavora concretamente sui testi. Infine mi auguro possa essere di stimolo al recensore che volesse avere qualche spunto in più per valutare la bontà di una traduzione."

Adah's desire to write is pitted against the forces of an egotistical and unfeeling husband and a largely indifferent white society.

Vers 1870, aux États-Unis, près de Cincinnati dans l'Ohio, le petit bourg de Bluestone Road, dresse ses fébriles demeures. L'histoire des lieux se lie au fleuve qui marquait jadis pour les esclaves en fuite la frontière où commençait la liberté. Dans l'une des maisons, quelques phénomènes étranges bouleversent la tranquillité locale : les meublent volent et les miroirs se brisent, tandis que des biscuits secs écrasés s'alignent contre une porte, des gâteaux sortent du four avec l'empreinte inquiétante d'une petite main de bébé. Sethe, la maîtresse de maison, est une ancienne esclave. Dix-huit ans auparavant, dans un acte de violence et d'amour maternel, elle a égorgé son enfant pour lui épargner d'être asservi. Depuis, Sethe et ses autres enfants n'ont jamais cessé d'être hantés par la petite fille. L'arrivée d'une inconnue, Beloved, va donner à cette mère hors-la-loi, rongée par le spectre d'un infanticide tragique, l'occasion d'exorciser son passé. Inspirée par une histoire vraie, renforcée par ses résonances de tragédie grecque, cette œuvre au lyrisme flamboyant est l'histoire d'un destin personnel et d'un passé collectif. Hymne à l'amour et à la maternité, roman de la faute, de la difficulté du pardon comme du deuil, de la rédemption par l'oubli, Beloved fut récompensé par le prix Pulitzer en 1988.

Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting. Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself. J. M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.

In her later years, novelist Elizabeth Costello becomes consumed by the idea of human cruelty to animals, leading her to avoid eye contact with others. She perceives meat-eaters as conspirators in a vast crime occurring in farms, slaughterhouses, and laboratories worldwide. Her son, a physics professor, admires her literary accomplishments but dreads her animal rights lectures at his college, where her views are met with skepticism. Colleagues challenge her assertion that human reasoning is overrated and that life's value isn't diminished by the inability to reason. At a dinner following her lecture, guests express a range of reactions to animal rights, sparking discussions that touch on philosophical, anthropological, and religious themes. While her son finds her views offensive and eccentric, he also recognizes their unsettling validity. Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee uses fiction to explore the complexities of animal rights through Costello's experiences of mortality, compassion for animals, and alienation from humanity, including her family. Presented as a Tanner Lecture at Princeton University, the narrative engages with literature, philosophy, and deep convictions, followed by responses from prominent thinkers. Coetzee's work, alongside essays from various scholars, delves into the social ramifications of moral conflict and confrontation.

The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma.

L'Interzone. Un territoire qui ne figure sur aucune carte, situé quelque part entre New York et Tanger, dédale infini de rues semblable aux méandres du cerveau d'un drogué. Un lieu fantomatique, où se réfugie William Lee après avoir accidentellement tué sa femme. Persuadé d'être un agent secret au centre d'une gigantesque machination, Lee commence à rédiger des rapports pour le compte d'une mystérieuse corporation internationale, communiquant avec elle par l'intermédiaire d'une machine à écrire fort loquace qui se transforme volontiers en cafard... Vertigineuse descente aux enfers de la drogue - de toutes les drogues -, le chef-d'œuvre de William Burroughs est d'une veine à la fois terrifiante, macabre, et d'un comique presque insoutenable.