Lost in Translation

From the author of A Geometry of Lilies comes a new collection of essays focusing on the exotic in the ordinary of everyday life. Steven Harvey's words illuminate and entertain as he ruminates on such topics as love of family, of students and teaching, of place and tradition, and of how language itself can transform experience.

Separate as the essays are, they all tell the same story, and though they bear different titles, they all could be called "Lost in Translation." In each essay, the self is brought against a new world or two worlds into conflict, the soul shedding a husk of its former life in the encounter. Such losses, the essays say, are the leavings of our changes and the price we pay for becoming. Some part of our true selves, Harvey notes, finds voice only in such translations--in engagement with others on others' terms--and this is the part we cannot live without.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 05/01/1997
ISBN: 9780820318905
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.77h x 5.75w x 0.66d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/09/1997 pg. 34
Library Journal 07/01/1997 pg. 82