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How We Review Translations

In defense of an endless task

April 10, 2018 • by David Stromberg

How much more are translators faced with the finality of their task! Having deferred authorship to their source, translators still carry the full burden and responsibility of carrying not only the text on the page, but the living choices that an author made using one word, phrase, or sentence instead ...

Translation Can Be a Peculiar Drug

Isaac Babel’s ‘Guy de Maupassant’ retranslated

November 29, 2017 • by Val Vinokur

Babel writes: “A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a barely discernible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm. You must turn it once, but not twice . . . I started talking of style, ...

Between the Language of the Universe and the Universe of Language

An Interview with Val Vinokur

November 28, 2017 • by Josh Maserow

–Franz Rosenzweig On December 1st, the New School hosts a “Day of Translation: the Art of Losing and Finding” in Wollman Hall, beginning at noon with the launch of Ahmad Al-Ashqar’s book Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations from at Mahmoud Darwish (Poets & Traitors Press); a 1:15pm Translators’ Reading and ...

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