Translations with no originals and originals from unwritten source texts: Guy Bennett reflects on the symbiosis of writing and translating in his more than thirty years of work.
Between Poetry and Translation
From Untranslatable to Illegible
Laura León Llerena discusses literacy as a colonial tool, introducing us to the Huarochirí manuscript and her book «Reading the Illegible».
To Translate Is to Write
French novelist and former Oulipo president Paul Fournel reflects on translation, on being translated, on translating the Oulipo, and on writing as a form of translation.
There Is No Equivalence
This installment of “Colloquy: Translators in Conversation” features Jennifer Grotz, Piotr Sommer, and Danielle Pierratti in conversation with Matvei Yankelevich and C. Francis Fisher.
A Wordless Coma
Brice Matthieussent takes a witty, provocative look at the figure of the translator, questioning the aptness of the French term “le passeur” to describe the translator’s role.
The European Professional Translator
Matt Reeck provides a biting free-form critique of the wholly inadequate conditions in which literary translators are too often expected to labor in Western capitalist society.
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