An edition of The Genius of Language
(2004)
The Genius of Language
Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues
by Wendy Lesser
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A collection of fifteen original essays in which writers reflect on their original languages, the mother tongues that shaped the English they write as well as the people they have become. (jacket flap copy)
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The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue
July 12, 2005, Anchor
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The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues
July 27, 2004, Pantheon
in English
0375422382 9780375422386
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Book Details
First Sentence
"The original idea for The Genius of Language was given to me by an editor, Alice van Straalen."
Table of Contents
Intrduction, Wendy Lesser, 3
The Way Back (Bangla), Bharati Mukherjee, 11
Yes and No (Chinese), Amy Tan, 25
Trouble with Language (Czech), Josef Skvorecky, 35
Circus Biped (Dutch), Bert Keizer, 49
French Without Tears (French), Luc Sante, 67
Prelude (German), Thomas Laqueur, 85
Recovering the Original (Gikyuy), Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 102
Split Self (Greek), Nicholas Papandreou, 111
Limpid, Blue, Poppy (Italian), M. J. Fitzgerald, 127
Personal and Singular (Korean), Ha-yun Jung, 145
On Being and Orphaned Writer (Polish), Louis Begley, 161
The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye (Russian), Gary Shteyngart, 176
Boswell and Mrs. Miller (Scots), James Campbell, 193
Fottnotes to a Double Life (Spanish), Ariel Dorfman, 206
My Yiddish (Yiddish), Leonard Michaels, 218
About the Contributors, 237
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First Sentence
"The original idea for The Genius of Language was given to me by an editor, Alice van Straalen."
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