Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn #joyce and playing with the Buzzcocks

and playing with the Buzzcocks

Lucas Hilderbrand reflects on the experience of falling of love with

Beautifully written and lushly illustrated

and illustrated by two of the world's leading natural history illustrators

What he gets is a knife to the throat and a furious woman with demands of her own

Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn #joyce and playing with the BuzzcocksAn energizing real time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation. In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art, illuminating both in the process. The problems and pleasures of conveying literature into another languagewhat happens when you meet a pun? a double entendre?are met by translator Daniel Hahn's humor,