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The Gist

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Description:A dealer in old books, lost books - books no-one knows even exist. A man who works for him, prizing meaning from places where it is deeply hidden. A book, at first unintelligible. . . but which begins to reveal its secrets in ways the translator could never have guessed.This is the story of The Gist, but that's only the beginning of the journey. Michael Marshall Smith's original short story was then translated into French by Benoit Domis, before being rendered back into English by Nicholas Royle - who had no access to the original text or author during the process.All three versions are presented in this edition. The idea is to discover what happened during the process, how much the story changed while passing through two other minds and another language. . . To see if The Gist survived.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Gist. To get started finding The Gist, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 1596065613

Description: A dealer in old books, lost books - books no-one knows even exist. A man who works for him, prizing meaning from places where it is deeply hidden. A book, at first unintelligible. . . but which begins to reveal its secrets in ways the translator could never have guessed.This is the story of The Gist, but that's only the beginning of the journey. Michael Marshall Smith's original short story was then translated into French by Benoit Domis, before being rendered back into English by Nicholas Royle - who had no access to the original text or author during the process.All three versions are presented in this edition. The idea is to discover what happened during the process, how much the story changed while passing through two other minds and another language. . . To see if The Gist survived.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Gist. To get started finding The Gist, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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