Helena Valentí, fúria i traducció

La filòloga i novel·lista Helena Valentí i Petit (Barcelona, 1940-1990) s’exilià de ben jove a Anglaterra, on buscà en la traducció el mitjà de vida. Entre altres autors i autores, traslladà al castellà William Blake, Marilyn French, Nicholas Guild, Najib Mahfuz, Harold Robbins, Bernice Rubens, Roger T. Taylor i Doris Lessing, de la qual traduí El quadern daurat. De retorn a Catalunya, el 1974, decidí compaginar la traducció amb la narrativa pròpia. Girà a la llengua catalana Al far i Una cambra pròpia de l’anglesa Virginia Woolf i La garden party i altres contes i Un home casat i altres crueltats de la neozelandesa Katherine Mansfield. En els anys vuitanta traslladà El factor humà de Graham Greene i Jo, Claudi de Robert Graves, i féu una breu incursió en la narrativa per a joves. Viatges indiscrets de Lisa St. Aubin, un recull de contes d’autores del segle XX, fou l’última traducció.

Detecting Detection: International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot

One of the problems with books which are relatively general in nature is that many of the individual contributions tend to be so narrow and specialised that only the author has any knowledge of (or interest in) the issues under discussion. At first sight this appears to be the case with Detecting Detection. Fortunately, however, first impressions are deceiving. Although the essays in the volume deal with writers as diverse and disparate as the Catalano-Spanish writer Juan Marse, the Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva and the once-vaunted giant of English literature,Graham Greene, among numerous others, there is much to be enjoyed and learnt, even if some of the works under discussion are unfamiliar to the crime fiction reader and/or scholar to whom the book initially appears to be directed.

Who we are : a citizenship collection.

Mezcla de ficción, poesía, artículos y autobiografías para explorar lo que es ser humano y examinar los retos que enfrentamos como ciudadanos del mundo. Está diseñada para enlazar con cuestiones de ciudadanía, tales como la identidad, derechos, responsabilidades y tradición. Los textos están dispuestos en cinco secciones temáticas. Cada sección concluye con una gama de lectura, escritura, conversación, escucha y actividades de teatro que ayudarán a explorar y disfrutar de las ideas, opiniones, estilo y lenguaje de los autores. La colección incluye, entre otros autores, textos de Maya Angelou, Arthur C. Clarke, Graham Greene, Rudyard Kipling, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, Roger McGough, Oscar Wilde. Hay notas sobre los autores.

Stories of ourselves : the University of Cambridge International Examinations anthology of stories in english.

Antología de relatos de escritores de diferentes países y culturas, como Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri y Annie Proulx. Su contenido se adapta al estudio del CIE, IGCSE y a los exámenes del nivel AS y nivel A de literatura en inglés.

Review of Voices from the shopfloor: Dramas of the employment relationship,/by Anne-Marie Greene. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2001

This research monograph seeks, as the author puts it, ‘to demonstrate the utility of ethnographic research methods to industrial relations in the developing world’. To this end, the author provides case studies of two lock factories in the West Midlands of England, with data sourced from interviews and observations by the author during a period of two decades in the case of one, and a rather shorter period in the case of the other. The insights gleaned from these two case studies are then considered in the light of the ethnographic literature on industrial relations in the developing world. The body of the book comprises three main chapters which successively examine the issues of paternalism, gender and family, and collective action in the two factories.

Leaflets of botanical observation and criticism /by Edward L. Greene.

v.1 (1903-1906)

Leaflets of botanical observation and criticism /by Edward L. Greene.

v.2 (1910-1912)

Diet and arboreality in the emerald monitor, Varanus prasinus : with comments on the study of adaptation : a contribution in celebration of the distinguished scholarship of Robert F. Inger on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / Harry W. Greene.

n.s. no.31(1986)