On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language - Brossura

Stavans, Ilan

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ISBN 10: 0142000949 ISBN 13: 9780142000946

Casa editrice: Penguin Group USA, 2002

Riassunto

Tracing his own life and cultural background from the perspective of language and words, the author of The Hispanic Condition traces his family's odyssey from Eastern Europe to the Jewish ghetto of Mexico City and his own years as a student activist, Zionist in Israel, theology student in New York, and current career as a scholar and author. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"A meditation on how language defines not just the words we use but the places we come from." —The New York Times Book Review

"Stavans's Mexico . . . is a treacherous but vivid world seen through the eyes of a gifted child; his subsequent encounter with America makes the New World seem-astonishingly-new." James Atlas, author of Bellow: A Biography

L'autore:

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the author or editor of numerous books.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Group USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0142000949
• ISBN 13: 9780142000946
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272