Zhou Kexi

Zhou Kexi (Chinese: 周克希), born 1942, is a Chinese translator of French literature.

Biography

Education

Zhou gained a degree in mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai.

Translator of French literature

He acquired the French language and became interested in French literature while studying at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He became a full-time literary editor in the 1980s, and has since then translated several French novels, including Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and André Malraux's The Royal Way (1930).

He is currently making a new translation of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. The first volume, Du côté de chez Swann,[1] was published in 2004.

He has also rendered Aventuras matemáticas (1987) by Spanish mathematician Miguel de Guzmán into Chinese.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Proust, Marcel (2001). Du Côté de Chez Swann. Project Gutenberg.
  2. ↑ Guzmán, Miguel de (1990). Aventures mathématiques. Lausanne, Suisse: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes. ISBN 2-88074-171-8. OCLC 23065026.


This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.