Re-translating Gianni Celati's "Narratori delle pianure"

Abstract

Robert Lumley, Celati's scholar and translator, combines testimony with theoretical reflection and praxis, returning thirty-five years later to his own translation of Narratori delle pianure, which appeared in 1988 for the British publisher Serpent's Tail under the title Voices from the Plains. Alongside a careful reflection on the translation choices made on that occasion, Lumley offers us a revised translation of one of the stories in the collection, 'Vivenza d'un barbiere dopo la morte'.