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Esodo/Nomi
Perché tradurre un libro molte volte tradotto? Perché dar credito all'ultimo arrivato in lingua ebraica antica? Perché ho sostenuto che il libro Esodo/Nomi non è mai stato tradotto. L 'impresa non rientra nella categoria delle truffe celebri, non ho venduto la fontana di Trevi a un turista americano. E' verità: ho tradotto questo libro pieno delle più grandi avventure sacre dell'umanità, come se non fosse stato mai fatto prima. Più che attenuto, mi sono appiattito, schiacciato sulla parola ebraica per riprodurla a calco in italiano: compreso per esempio l'ordine della frase o la rinuncia di quella lingua al verbo "avere", L'ho fatto per ammirazione, movente primo: non perché rifulga in questa veste più che. nelle altre, ma per stabilire una forma della fedeltà, l'unica per me. L 'intento è di procurare nostalgia dell'originale. In alcuni punti questa traduzione è scandalosa di rif1esso, per la splendida brutalità d'immagine della lingua madre. E un libro sacro, un'avventura per anime in fiamme e in travaglio, non per quieti. Ogni altra avvertenza è inutile. Erri De Luca
168 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Erri De Luca
156 books711 followersUpon completing high school in 1968 Erri De Luca joined the radical left-wing movement Lotta Continua. After the organization's disbandment he worked as a blue collar at the Fiat factory in Turin and at the Catania airport. He also was as a truck driver and a mason, working in job sites in Italy, France and Africa. He rode relief convoys in Yugoslavia during the war between 1993 and 1999.
He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish.
De Luca is a passionate mountain climber. A reclusive character, he currently lives in a remote cottage in the countryside of Rome.
Although he never stopped writing since he was 20, his first book is published in 1989, Non ora, non qui (Not now, not here). Many more books followed, best sellers in Italy, France and Israel, his work being translated and published in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Holland, USA, Brazil, Poland, Norway, Danmark, Romania, Greece and Lithuania. He has himself translated several books of the Bible into Italian like Exodus, Jonah, Ecclesiastes, Ruth, and explored various aspects of Judaism, as a non-believer.
In France, he received the France Culture Prize in 1994 for Aceto, arcobaleno, the Laure Bataillon Award in 2002 for Tre cavalli and, also in 2002, the Fémina Étranger for Montedidio, translated in English as God's Mountain. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Festival in 2003.
Erri De Luca writes regularly for various newspapers (La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Corriere della Sera, Avvenire), and magazines.
He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish.
De Luca is a passionate mountain climber. A reclusive character, he currently lives in a remote cottage in the countryside of Rome.
Although he never stopped writing since he was 20, his first book is published in 1989, Non ora, non qui (Not now, not here). Many more books followed, best sellers in Italy, France and Israel, his work being translated and published in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Holland, USA, Brazil, Poland, Norway, Danmark, Romania, Greece and Lithuania. He has himself translated several books of the Bible into Italian like Exodus, Jonah, Ecclesiastes, Ruth, and explored various aspects of Judaism, as a non-believer.
In France, he received the France Culture Prize in 1994 for Aceto, arcobaleno, the Laure Bataillon Award in 2002 for Tre cavalli and, also in 2002, the Fémina Étranger for Montedidio, translated in English as God's Mountain. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Festival in 2003.
Erri De Luca writes regularly for various newspapers (La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Corriere della Sera, Avvenire), and magazines.
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