Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized – A Conversation with David Bellos. Ever heard people say things like, “A translation is no substitute for the original” or “Humour can’t be translated into another language”? In this wide-ranging conversation with David Bellos, Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, many fascinating features of language and translation are explored at length.
This conversation will be released in a carefully-edited video format. Available now is an enhanced book developed from the conversation, while David Bellos is also featured in two short documentaries – all details are below.
This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:
Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized is also part of the five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection, Conversations About Language & Culture, which is available in hardcover, paperback and electronic format.
David Bellos is featured in two short documentareis together with several other renowned researchers, including Carol Padden, Michael Berry, Pankaj Mishra, Ellen Bialystok and Victor Ferreira.
