Released in May 2022 by Princeton University Press,
Translating Myself and Othersrepresents Jhumpa Lahiri’s most recent non-fiction book, marking her third venture into this genre. Articulated in a series of ten essays, written in a compound of Italian and English, translated by others or self-translated, the collection extends to the field of translation and self-translation some of the reflections on the questions of language, identity, and cultural assignation initiated by Lahiri in her 2015 memoir,
In altre parole[
In Other Words].
Following the success of In altre parole, Lahiri published four more books in Italian. These include Il vestito dei libri [The Clothing of Books] (2016), a concise personal essay exploring the interplay between text and image, the novel Dove mi trovo
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Citation: Cutolo, Benedetta. "Translating Myself and Others". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 December 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41203, accessed 02 December 2024.]