alan bennett the uncommon reader summary

IMPORTANTE La sovrana lettrice came out with Adelphi in 2007, immediately standing out from the English version for its title and the picture on the front cover (see Fig. ‘But…why do you think you’re all here?’”, 121), and this is where the book ends.

At which point, the Queen seems on the point of making an important announcement (“‘Oh, did I not say that? said the Queen. The Prime Minister makes the objection that he could do so because he had abdicated. When the Queen rebukes the Prime Minister – who has said that Her Majesty is in a unique position and that a monarch has never published a book – she provides a few examples of ancestors who have done so, mentioning among them her uncle the Duke of Windsor.

Like Marcel in Proust’s masterpiece, she says, she feels that her life “needs redeeming by analysis and reflection.” The Ministers are alarmed by the news. On her eightieth birthday, when all the ministers gather to wish her well and drink champagne, the Queen announces her idea of writing a book and asks those who have read Marcel Proust to raise their hands. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford proves to be extremely inspiring, infecting the Queen with an inexplicable urge to read and read, to make up for time lost. She finds the book quite a hard read, but returning it the following week, she feels obliged to take out another book. She selects a novel, a random volume of Ivy Compton-Burnett’s, intending to return it the following week. The young man was taking out a book by Cecil Beaton, while Her Majesty was just chasing after her dogs – a pack of corgis who were refusing to come in and were barking sharply at the large van – and had only entered the bookmobile to apologise for the noise, but felt obliged to borrow a book once in. PLOT One day the Queen bumps into a ginger-haired kitchen boy, Norman Seakins, at the City of Westminster travelling library which happens to be parked outside the kitchen at Buckingham Palace. She does not go so far as to attempt linguistic creation: the Queen’s use of both ‘one’ and ‘we’ and ‘I’ in the source text is reduced to an alternation between the simple majestic plural and the first person singular in the target text, which removes from the story the added comic effect of ‘royalese’, among other things. Pavani does not seem to take the re-writing aspect of translation to an extreme in this translation. The paper starts with an introduction aimed at identifying the theoretical framework in which the analysis is set: the approach is translator centred. Scarica The uncommon reader- saggio riassunto e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Linguistica Inglese solo su Docsity! THE UNCOMMOR READER This paper aims to explore how Monica Pavani, a translator and poet from Ferrara, has dealt with the translation of style in The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.

Alan bennett the uncommon reader summary