About the Book: Mixed Metaphors: The Art of Translation
Who is a translator?
What does it mean to be a translator?
Is she a musician interpreting a score?
Is he a conductor leading an orchestra?
Or a child building a Lego set?
What is the act of translation?
Is it making a patchwork quilt, bit by bit?
A monster?
A polygamous marriage?
Somersaulting through a curious, bewildering, often humorous set of metaphors,
award-winning translator Daisy Rockwell navigates her quest to seek the perfect
metaphor for the art of translation.
Mixed