In Other Words

From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful, and eloquent nonfiction debutIn Other Words is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession that of a writer for another language For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college And although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery had always eluded her So in 2012, seeking full immersion, she decided to move to Rome with her family, for a trial by fire, a sort of baptism into a new language and world In Rome, Lahiri began to read, and to write initially in her journal solely in Italian In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice Presented in a dual language format, it is a book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Nabokov A startling act of self reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention. New Read In Other Words [ By ] Jhumpa Lahiri [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Jhumpa Lahiri first entered the literary fiction scene with her Pulitzer Prize winning Interpreter of Maladies in 2000 A collection of short stories set in India and the United States, Maladies tugged at the reader s heartstrings Since Maladies, Lahiri has gone on to write three full length novels Yet, while grappling whether to set her stories in the United States or India, Lahiri set off to learn an additional language Italian In Other Words written entirely in Italian while living in Ita Jhumpa Lahiri first entered the literary fiction scene with her Pulitzer Prize winning Interpreter of Maladies in 2000 A collection of short stories set in India and the United States, Maladies tugged at the reader s heartstrings Since Maladies, Lahiri has gone on to write three full length novels Yet, while grappling whether to set her stories in the United States or India, Lahiri set off to learn an additional language Italian In Other Words written entirely in Italian while living in Italy is Lahiri s first work of nonfiction Growing up the daughter of immigrant parents, Lahiri s first language was Bengali Hearing t...Holy cow snoopy lupi fluky I had no idea what Lahiri was up to since reading Lowland , having just finished it days ago A bombshell just dropped from the heavens The writing is gorgeous and intimate I m incredibly inspireda little sad yet I m not sure who I m sad for Mostly, Jhumpa Lahiri rocked my boat razzle dazzled me Jhumpa Lahiri literally turned her life upside down inside out.taking her family with her This... I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation I feel tormented, just like Verga s songbird Like her, I wish for something else something that I probably shouldn t wish for But I think that the need to write always comes from desperation, along with hope. Jhumpa LahiriTwenty one summers ago I was finishing up one graduate degree in International Affairs and preparing to start a second one in Linguistics, moving from an inquiry into the effects women s I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation I feel...In Other Words Jhumpa Lahiri was born Nilanjana Sudeshna to Bengali Indian immigrants in London, she and her family moved to the United States when she was three years oldHere was a woman, a translator, who wanted to be another person There was no precise reason It had always been that way She considered herself imperfect, like the first draft of a book She wanted to produce another version of herself, in the same way that she could transform a text from one language into another From Th In Other Words Jhumpa Lahiri was born Nilanjana Sudeshna to Bengali Indian immigrants in London, she and her family moved to the United States when she was three years oldHere was a woman, a translator, who wanted to be another person There was no precise reason It had always been that way She considered herself imperfect, like the first draft of a book She wanted to produce another version of...The most interesting character in Jhumpa Lahiri s The Namesake is a young woman whose parents emigrated to Boston from Bengal She speaks two languages, English and Bengali, and when she decides to study a third at university, she chooses French Moushumi, we are told in the novel, approached French, unlike American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, or expectation of any kind It was easier to turn her back on the two countries that could claim her in favour of one that had no claim whatso The most interesting character in Jhumpa Lahiri s The Namesake is a young woman whose parents emigrated to Boston from Bengal She speaks two languages, English and Bengali, and when she decides to study a third at university, she chooses French Moushumi, we are told in the novel, approached French, unlike American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, or expectation of any kind It was easier to turn her back on the two countries that could claim her in favour of one that had no claim whatsoever In Other Words expands on that idea Jhumpa Lahiri s mother tongue is Bengali but English is the one she learned to read and write in, so her mother tongue slipped into second position, and eventually, because of her difficulties in reading and writing in it, it became a foreign la...In altre parole In other words, Jhumpa Lahiri 1395 140 9789642092727 21 1395 160 9786008211082 In altre parole In other words, Jhumpa Lahiri 1395 140 9789642092727 21 1395 160 9786008211082 1395 99 9786002296764 This book In altre parole in Italian is about an intense love affair a love affair with a language, a total infatuation with Italian This is how author Jhumpa Lahiri describes her book un libro di memoria, pieno di metafore Racconta una ricerca, una conquista, una sconfitta continua Un infanzia e una maturit , un evoluzione, forse una rivoluzione un libro d a, di sofferenza Racconta una nuova indipendenza insieme a una nuova dipendenza Una collaborazione, e anche uno stat... lingua come una marea, ora un inondazione, ora bassa, inaccessibileThere are two writers whose stories are similar to stories I d aspire to write Jhumpa Lahiri and Chimamanda Adichie They write about the immigrant experience, of characters who have overcome obstacles, of those who strive to simply find some soup on of success in foreign lands Writers like Lahiri reveal the immigrant s challenges and successes wit...When I finished this book, I immediately wondered if Jhumpa Lahiri s next novel would be in Italian.What a funny idea to come up with a full book solely engaged with her reasoning for wanting to learn Italian and her experiences while doing it Granted, wanting to learn Italian on my part is why I decided to read it The bilingual set up, view spoiler Although in the electronic format the facing pages of the printed edition are replaced by the two versions presented consecutively hide spoile When I finished this book, I immediately wondered if Jhumpa Lahiri s next novel would be in Italian.What a funny idea to come up with a full book solely engaged with her reasoning for wanting to learn Italian and her experiences while doing it Granted, wanting to learn Italian on my part is why I decided to read it The bilingual set up, view spoiler Although in the electronic format the facing pages of the printed edition are replaced by the two versions presented consecutively hide spoiler , attracted me I saw it as another learning tool in which the English version would be, lazily, my safety net This account felt entertaining at times, infuriating at others Reading a parallel process to mine was like comparing notes with a friend and, therefore, enjoyable But something that ought not to have taken much longer than a convers...

• English
• 24 December 2017
Jhumpa Lahiri
• Hardcover
• 233 pages
• 1101875550
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• In Other Words