The Reverse Side of the Tapestry

Name: The Reverse Side of the Tapestry
Brand: CARCANET PRESS
SKU: 9781800175808
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By Alberto Manguel
Imprint: LIVES AND LETTERS
Release Date: December 23, 2026
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
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Pages: 144

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The Reverse Side of the Tapestry is the definition Cervantes gives of translation in Don Quixote; here, it is an essay on the translator's craft. Alberto Manguel has been a translator of many great writers - Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar into English; Katherine Mansfield and Paul Eluard into Spanish. In this book-length essay he delivers an eloquent meditation on the art of literary translation which, to Manguel's mind, is the keenest form of reading. Featuring original illustrations from Manguel himself.

Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 and is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor and a former Director of the National Library of Argentina. He lives in Lisbon, Portugal.

'Manguel is a generous companion ... he remains, in the proper sense of the word, an 'amateur,' a lover rather than a specialist.' George Steiner, The New Yorker

The Reverse Side of the Tapestry

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