Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason)
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Am, Ah, That Is an Extraordinarily Powerful Work.
Am and pavese wrote a very much in the a autobiographical vein. They did things that, you know, again, i think it's fashionable when the writer becomes a character. He was influenced by read and translating a melville, among others,. And his italian has a different energy as a result of that translation. Ray: It's richer for you to read in italian and maybe even sometimes to write in italian now because the partial blindness gives you a new lens on all these problems you've been trying to come to terms with.
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