Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F.
But knowledge serves power, and for Robin, a Chinese boy raised in Britain, serving Babel inevitably means betraying his motherland.
Silver-working has made the British Empire unparalleled in power, and Babel's research in foreign languages serves the Empire's quest to colonize everything it encounters.Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, is a fairytale for Robin a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.
Babel is the world's center of translation and, more importantly, of silver-working: the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation through enchanted silver bars, to magical effect. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation ? also known as Babel. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. Read / Download Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' RevolutionĭESCRIPTION BOOK : Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
0 kommentar(er)
