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    John Michael Cohen was een productief vertaler van Europese literatuur naar het Engels. Hij begon zijn vertaalcarrière met de eerste Engelse vertaling van gedichten van Boris Pasternak, die destijds buiten de Sovjet-Unie onbekend was. Zijn vertaalwerk kreeg lof van vooraanstaande literaire figuren. Cohen speelde een cruciale rol in de Latijns-Amerikaanse Boom van de jaren 1960 door werken van belangrijke auteurs te vertalen en ze onder de aandacht van Engelstalige lezers te brengen. Naast zijn uitgebreide vertaal- en redactiewerk schreef hij ook werken over literatuurkritiek en biografie.

    English Translators and Translations
    The Betrayal of Montezuma
    Don Quixote
    The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-century Quotations
    The Penguin dictionary of quotations
    The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

    • The Penguin dictionary of quotations

      • 672bladzijden
      • 24 uur lezen

      This volume of memorable quotations, old and new, will be useful for competition entries and crosswords, speeches or letters or purely to dip into for entertainment.

      The Penguin dictionary of quotations
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    • The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-century Quotations

      This is a companion and source book for the reader, the writer, the after-dinner speaker, the crossword puzzle solver and the browser. The dictionary can be used in two ways: by turning up key words such as life, god, love or money or by making direct use of the first section where authors, and their memorable statements, are listed alphabetically.

      The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-century Quotations
      3,8

    • Don Quixote

      Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature.

      Don Quixote
      3,9

    • The Betrayal of Montezuma

      • 96bladzijden
      • 4 uur lezen

      One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles.

      The Betrayal of Montezuma
      3,7

    • John Cohen

      Here and Gone, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie & the 1960s

      • 144bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      John Cohen’s portraiture of two titans of American music at opposite ends of their careers John Cohen was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, one of the American folk revival's most authentic and respected musical groups. In the 1960s he made a series of photographs of the last years of Woody Guthrie's life, and early portraits of Bob Dylan on his arrival in New York, depicting two titans of American music at opposite ends of their careers. In the process, Cohen portrayed one of the great moments of American folk music history. The book contains other images from the 1960s, including the music scenes at Washington Square and on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, images of Jerry Garcia and the musicians in San Francisco's Family Dog, as well as the psychedelic Sky River Rock festival. In 1970, Dylan requested Cohen make another set of color photographs of him with a camera that could take photographs from a block away. He was portrayed walking unrecognized on the streets of the city and at a farm in upstate New York. The photographs were used in Dylan's album Self Portrait.

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