David Bellos

Prima Edizione La Piccola Scala-Una coppia di giovani vittima del consumismo. Il primo romanzo di Perec raccontava nel 1965, con profetica ironia, la forza emozionale, estetica, perfino erotica, che l'universo degli oggetti possiede e trasmette agli uomini. Come Roland Barthes commentò l'esordio del suo allievo, «una …

Georges Perec: A Life in Words is an authoritative biography of Georges Perec by David Bellos, Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, who also translated Perec's major novel Life: A User's Manual from French …

Jacques Tati: His Life and Art is a book by David Bellos.

People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the …