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...Weaver, 61, the preeminent interpreter of Italian prose, is a Virginian who lives and works in the Italian hill country between Arezzo and Siena. To prevent his English from becoming too Italianized, he makes yearly trips to New York City, where he consults with his most "nurturing" publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich's Helen Wolff. When Weaver is not translating such writers as Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante and Italo Calvino, he reads vast quantities of American mysteries, which he reviews for the London Financial Times. "Crime books," he maintains, "are very good at keeping you abreast of what people...
Unlike many of his colleagues. Weaver is reluctant to consult with authors about obscurities in their books, or even to show them his work in progress, unless they have perfect command of English. He has good reasons. Five years ago, one author complained that Weaver had used the word cot instead...
...that short for cottage?" the writer demanded. When Weaver began translating Morante's monumental novel History, she phoned him several times a day to ask how he had rendered certain words...
MARRIED. Sigourney Weaver, 35, commanding, lissome film actress (The Year of Living Dangerously, Ghostbusters) currently starring on Broadway in Hurlyburly; and Jim Simpson, 28, theatrical director and Yale Drama School professor; both for the first time; in Oyster...
Difficult Loves may further confound the unwary. All of its 28 stories date from the 1940s and '50s. Their language (some pieces have been translated by William Weaver, the rest by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright) is straightforward, with nary a hint of narrative nudging. A few seem little more than sketches; in A Ship Loaded with Crabs, for instance, a group of young boys explores a half-sunken hulk, repulses a boarding by a rival gang and then swims off. But that is not quite all. A resonance lingers; the sound of splashing and the play of light...