Translating a Person - Believer Magazine
1. The gringo was twelve years old, like nearly all of us, and his name was Michael González or John Pérez or something like that: a common English first name and a last name that was equally common in Spanish. He had grown up in Chicago with Chilean parents, so his Spanish was almost the […]
Translating a Person December 2nd, 2019 | Issue one hundred twenty-eight WHOM DO WE BECOME WHEN WE INHABIT ANOTHER LANGUAGE? DISCUSSED The Gringo, Alimentation, A Couple of Brads, Spanish-from-Spain Translations, Operating with the Words One Has, Wickerby, An Infinite Series of Texts, An Arduous Game of Literacy, This Little Art, My English, The Most Interesting Person on the Planet by Alejandro Zambra Illustration by Sanja Bošković Share Share via Facebook Share via Twitter Copy link to clipboard Share via text message Translating a Person Alejandro Zambra Share via Facebook Share via Twitter
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