Samuel Putnam  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Samuel Putnam (October 10, 1892 – January 15, 1950) was an American translator and scholar of Romance languages. He was known for his Leftist leanings (he was a columnist for "The Daily Worker"). His most famous work is his 1949 English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. It is the first version of the work in what we would consider contemporary English; although there is still use of archaic language in the translation, it is more restricted than in earlier English versions of the work. The language is formal when spoken by educated characters, but seldom old-fashioned, while the peasant characters speak in colloquial modern English. Putnam worked on the translation for twelve years before he published it. He also published a companion volume, The Portable Cervantes, which included an abridged version of his translation, in addition to English versions of two of the Novelas ejemplares of Cervantes. Putnam's complete translation, originally published by Viking Press, was reprinted in the Modern Library, and has seldom been out of print since its publication nearly sixty years ago. He was also a noted translator of Rabelais.

Putnam is the father of noted American philosopher Hilary Putnam.

Linking in 20222

Alice Prin, American Artists School, Antônio Conselheiro, Chichester Festival production history, Daily Worker, Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man, Don Quixote, Ezra Pound, Gargantua and Pantagruel, George Reavey, Helena Rubinstein, Hilary Putnam, J. M. Cohen, John Ormsby (translator), John Phillips (author), Kiki's Memoirs, Le Sang noir, Les Enfants terribles, List of translators into English, Machado de Assis, Marguerite de Navarre, Objectivism (poetry), One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Os Sertões, Pedro I of Brazil, Philip Owens, Pietro Aretino, Princess Paula of Brazil, Sergio Corrêa da Costa, The Violent Land, Tonight We Improvise

See also

A. R. Allinson, List of translators into English




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Samuel Putnam" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools