Hopscotch is thrilled to share Esther Allen’s afterword for her long-awaited translation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s The Silentiary, coming from NYRB Classics on February 1st, 2022.
And Not Towards Peace
Translationships (VI)
In Translationships VI, Magdalena Edwards turns to an unlikely source for a new look at translation: Denis Villeneuve’s film DUNE (2021), as exemplified by its protagonist Paul.
Translating in Sympathetic Ink
Amélie Derome sheds light on Marie Canavaggia, whose role as Céline’s secretary has overshadowed her work as a translator, namely of John Cowper Powys’s autobiography.
Reading and Translating Theatre
Kotryna Garanasvili takes her English-language adaptation of Lithuanian playwright Marius Ivaškevičius as a starting point for reflecting on how we read and translate theater.
T. E. Lawrence in the Forest of Translation
Samuel Martin revisits T. E. Lawrence’s English version of a little-known French novel by Adrien Le Corbeau, «The Forest Giant», nearly 100 years after its initial publication.
Translating Legend and Legacy
May Huang writes of how she overcame her initial hesitancy to translate a story from the Chinese wuxia tradition by Ma Xiaoquan, published this fall by Pathlight Magazine.
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