Translating Style

Approaching translation from the side of criticism, this book studies the prose style of several major twentieth-century writers and considers what literary translation involves. Its author, Tim Parks, is both a novelist and a professional translator, and he sets out to show, through close textual analysis, what it really means to carry a writer's style into another language.

Parks combines literary and linguistic methods. The book is built from interconnected chapters, each examining the Italian translations of one author: D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Henry Green and Barbara Pym.