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Ann Goldstein, born in 1957, is an accomplished curator known for her profound understanding and extensive influence on modern art. She has held significant positions in several renowned art institutions.

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“I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.”

Thinking Kind Important Be Kind Translations Literal

Author:Ann Goldstein

“I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.”

Thinking Important Sometimes Loses Levels Sight Sentences Accurate Paragraph

Author:Ann Goldstein

“As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others.”

Seems Language Sound Term Decision Etc Unlikely Nuance Translators

Author:Ann Goldstein

“To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.”

Book Bigs Seems Figures Big Things Presentation Translators Really Popular

Author:Ann Goldstein

“The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People have mentioned that Naples is like a character in the novels.”

People World Character Culture Cities Novel Naples

Author:Ann Goldstein

“I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.”

Author:Ann Goldstein

“That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.”

Writing Subjects Huge Publicity

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“One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not.”

Gone Female Narrators

Author:Ann Goldstein

“It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.”

Standards Hardest Translate Hardest Thing

Author:Ann Goldstein

“I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to words in a very specific, very concrete, very literal way.”

Thinking Way Training Train Very Good Editors Concrete Literal Translators

Author:Ann Goldstein

“I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.”

Thinking Hard Action Translate

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“The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.”

People Sound Truth Is Ears Italian Worth It

Author:Ann Goldstein

“Trying to take a feeling from one language, and express it in another is naturally that's my goal. You can't possibly achieve that in a perfect way because there's so many things you have to take into consideration. You know, think about every word, every sentence, every paragraph, and do what you can.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Feelings Language Goal Perfect Achieve Sentences Consideration Paragraph

Author:Ann Goldstein

“It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get out of it - or don't get out of it - that's part of it. But it's also the story of the mid-20th century in Italy so it's really like a social, historical and personal novel. I think that even though I didn't live in Italy in those years, it did cover that same type of generational upbringing that someone like me might've had in America.”

“I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry - it's too hard, there are too many levels. Not that prose doesn't have many levels, but it's more grounded.”

Ifs Kind Hard Philosophy Levels Example Prose Translate Grounded Literal

Author:Ann Goldstein

“I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that word means in the sentence, then you have to read the sentence in the paragraph - you're sort of building up like that; that's my philosophy.”

Thinking Mean Philosophy Individual Building Sentences Paragraph Building Up

Author:Ann Goldstein

“I really had wanted to learn Italian for a long time. I think ever since - or even maybe even before I had read Dante. And I just sort of had this idea that I wanted to read Dante in Italian. And then in my office, we actually had a class - an Italian class.”

Thinking Long Ideas Wanted Class Office Long Time Italian

Author:Ann Goldstein

“Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.”

Writing Kind Mean Doe Different Scientist Details Different Kinds Formal Detached Levi's

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“I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own version of it. And every translator would probably have a different version. But I think that that's what keeps the writers from being individual in English. They may be my English, but I don't think that Ferrante sounds like Levi.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying May Mean Different Courses Individual Sound Versions Translators Write Your Own

Author:Ann Goldstein

“I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.”

Author:Ann Goldstein

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Born: 1957
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