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Barbara Wright

バーバラ・ライト

Bābara Raito

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1915-10-13 (Worthing, West Sussex, England)
死没
2009-03-03 (London, England, UK) 93歳
国籍
British
言語
English, French
居住地歴
Worthing, West Sussex → Salisbury (Godolphin School) → London (Royal College of Music) → Paris (under Alfred Cortot) → Beacon Hill School → Hampstead, north London

経歴

職業
Translator, Pianist, Literary Critic
活動期間
1951年〜2009年
所属
College of Pataphysics
所属団体
College of Pataphysics Régente de Zozologie Shakespearienne (1953), Satrape (2001)
影響を受けた人物
Alfred Jarry, Raymond Queneau
影響を与えた人物
Raymond Queneau, Robert Pinget, Nathalie Sarraute

学歴

Godolphin School
General Education
期間: 不明
国: United Kingdom
Girls' school in Salisbury

受賞歴

Commandeur, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1986
主催: French Ministry of Culture
結果: 受賞
Scott Moncrieff Prize
1987
対象作品: The First Book of Grabinoulor
主催: Society of Authors
結果: 受賞
Scott Moncrieff Prize
1992
対象作品: The Midnight Love Feast
主催: Society of Authors
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Exercises in Style

1958年 Experimental Fiction

Translation of Raymond Queneau's work, renowned for capturing French stylistic variations in English.

Linguistic ExperimentationStylistic Variations

全著作

  • The First Book of Grabinoulor (Pierre Albert-Birot, 1986)
  • Exercises in Style (Raymond Queneau, 1958)

作家による翻訳

  • Numerous French literary works translated into English (Queneau, Pinget, Sarraute, etc.)

作風・主題

文体
Poetic prose and drama translationFocus on French surrealist and existential writingCapturing text rhythm
頻出モチーフ
English equivalents of French idiomsImmersion in author's world

評価・遺産

Renowned English translator of modern French literature, especially surrealist and experimental works. Her translation of Queneau's Exercises in Style became the basis for versions in other languages.

資料所蔵先

  • Lilly Library, Indiana University

豆知識

  • Married Walter Hubbard in 1938, separated 1957, daughter born 1944
  • Member of College of Pataphysics alongside Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard
  • Believed her accompanist work helped capture text rhythm