by Umberto Eco · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483468920
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In this essay, Umberto Eco explores the complex art of translation, drawing on his experience as an author translated into multiple languages. Eco analyzes the challenges and decisions faced by translators when trying to convey the meaning and style of an original text into another language. Through concrete examples and theoretical reflections, the author examines the nature of interpretation and fidelity in translation, offering a fascinating insight into this creative and often problematic process.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
