Jack Rockwell weighs the pluses, pitfalls, and implications of two very different approaches to translating the notoriously difficult prose of Jorge Luis Borges into English.
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What Process Insights Can Be Gleaned From Translation Manuscripts?
Mara Faye Lethem draws on translator David Rosenthal’s archive in Barcelona to explore the theoretical and pedagogical insights that await in the papers of other translators.
So, What Is It?
Translator Jessica Sequeira reflects on love, art, and Modernity in this introduction to the life and work of Chilean poet Manuel Magallanes Moure, author of «What Is Love?»
Another Kind of Emergence
Ilze Duarte responds to Michelle Mirabella’s essay on translators and authors emerging together, and tells of her own co-emergence with the Brazilian writer Marília Arnaud.
Language is a Foreign Language
Nancy Seidler sketches out several approaches to experimental translation, drawing on her own multimedia practice as well as examples from Eliot Weinberger to Sawako Nakayasu.
The Role of the Author in China
Dylan Levi King explores the author’s role in 20th- and 21st-century China, in an essay excerpted from the brand-new «Paper Republic Guide to Contemporary Chinese Literature».
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