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Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

Polly Barton

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Description:“Witty, exuberant, also melancholy, and crowded with intelligence” (Rivka Galchen), Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: “It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover.” Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping the basics and becoming not only a literary translator but fluent in one of the most difficult vernaculars in the world.From min-min, the sound of air screaming, to hi’sori, the sound of harboring masochist tendencies, Barton renders these foreign sounds to reflect on the meaning of being an outsider, cultural conformity, and even the transformative philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. A classic in the making, Fifty Sounds unearths the distinctly human act of learning to communicate and think in a new way.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 Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing. To get started finding Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: “Witty, exuberant, also melancholy, and crowded with intelligence” (Rivka Galchen), Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: “It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover.” Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping the basics and becoming not only a literary translator but fluent in one of the most difficult vernaculars in the world.From min-min, the sound of air screaming, to hi’sori, the sound of harboring masochist tendencies, Barton renders these foreign sounds to reflect on the meaning of being an outsider, cultural conformity, and even the transformative philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. A classic in the making, Fifty Sounds unearths the distinctly human act of learning to communicate and think in a new way.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 Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing. To get started finding Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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