English translation of "envés y revés al mismo tiempo" - "[such that] it's radically different yet familiar/recognizable"

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152 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Spanish > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	envés y revés al mismo tiempo
Context:	No importa el género o tipo de este texto; en todo caso, está asentado, anclado, en la...
Keywords:	...realidad. Tanto en la de la autora como en la de sus palabras, que son también las de muchos lectores, hasta componer algo así como una ampliación vehemente y muy particular del "léxico familiar" de Natalia Ginzburg, pero ahora envés y revés al mismo tiempo.

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152 months ago

Sylvia J. Andrade wrote:

backwards and forwards at the same time

152 months ago

Clara Fernández wrote:

front and back

152 months ago

Clara Fernández wrote:

[such that] it's radically different yet familiar/recognizable

My comment:

Quite difficult to convey this! I think the meaning is that she uses language in a very original way, making familiar words/phrases seem unusual. She appropriates language somehow and makes it her own.

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152 months ago

wrote:

Your interpretation is not too terribly off, since the author refers to her work, born of her own personal psychological confusion, occasioned by painful loss, as "Non-writing".

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