David Bellos

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David Bellos (born June 25, 1945 ) is a British literary scholar and translator.

Life

David Bellos was at the University of Oxford doctorate in Romance languages and had teaching responsibilities at the University of Edinburgh , University of Southampton and the University of Manchester . In 1997 he was appointed professor of Romance studies, French literature and comparative literature at Princeton University . In 2011 he wrote an introduction to translation entitled Is That a Fish in Your Ear? .

In 2005, Bellos won the translator's share in the first Man Booker International Prize awarded for his translations of works by the Albanian Ismail Kadare , whose translations into French by the bilingual Jusuf Vrioni he translated into English. He wrote an essay in 2005 about this act of indirect translation , which he actually rejected.

Bellos wrote several literary biographies, such as The Novel of the Century on Victor Hugo's work Les Misérables . He also translated La Vie mode d'emploi by Georges Perec , for which he received the Prix ​​Goncourt de la biographie in 1994 , as well as other works by Perec, Kadare, individual works by Georges Ifrah , Romain Gary , Georges Simenon , Paul Fournel , two novels by Fred Vargas and also the diary of the Holocaust victim Hélène Berr .

In 2015 he was accepted as an officer in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Fonts

  • Balzac Criticism in France, 1850-1900. The Making of a Reputation . Oxford, 1976
  • La Cousine Bette. A critical guide . London, 1981
  • Leo Spitzer : Essays on seventeenth century . Edited and translated by David Bellos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983
  • Honoré de Balzac: Old Goriot . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987
  • Georges Perec. A Life in Words . London: Harvill Secker, 1993
  • Jacques Tati. His Life and Art . 1999
  • Romain Gary. A tall story . London: Harvill Secker, 2010
  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything . London and New York, 2011
    • What is the fish doing in my ear? . Translation by Silvia Morawetz . Cologne: Eichborn, 2013
  • The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables . London: Particular Books, 2017

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Bellos: The Englishing of Ismail Kadare. Notes of a retranslator , in: Complete review , Volume VI, Issue 2, May 2005
personal data
SURNAME Bellos, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary scholar and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1945