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Ilan Stavans

    Ilan Stavans je profesorem latinskoamerické a latinské kultury na Amherst College. Jako oceněný spisovatel a moderátor veřejnoprávní televize se jeho práce zabývá střetáváním kultur a jazykovou dynamikou. Jeho psaní zkoumá složité identity a kulturní krajiny, které vznikají na pomezí různých světů. Stavans přináší pronikavý pohled na zkušenosti Hispánců a jejich vliv na americkou společnost.

    Geborgte Worte
    Imagining Columbus
    How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
    The Plain in Flames
    Prospero's Mirror
    • 2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for Anthologies Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Yiddish) A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America--radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life--edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.

      How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish2020
      3,8
    • The Plain in Flames

      • 140 stránek
      • 5 hodin čtení

      This fresh, definitive translation of El llano en llamas—which restores two stories that were not included in the first English translation, The Burning Plain (1967, nearly 45,000 copies sold)—introduces a new generation of readers to one of Mexico’s greatest writers of the twentieth century.

      The Plain in Flames2012
      4,2
    • Prospero's Mirror

      • 323 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      Sixteen master translators have chosen their favorite stories from Latin America. Writers and translators include Edith Grossman, Helen R. Lane, Augusto Monterroso, Gregory Rabassa, Alfonso Reyes, Hardie St. Martin, and Luisa Valenzuela. An introductory essay on translation by Ilan Stavans and an epilogue by Margaret Sayers Peden provide entertaining food for thought.

      Prospero's Mirror1998
      4,2