Houssine Dehbi reviews Ros Schwartz’s translation of Khalid Lyahmlahy’s novel «Venice Requiem», focusing in particular on the literary and translational ethics of witnessing.
Bearing Down on the Numbers
The Faithfulness of the Original
Evariste Pimplis talks with Peter Constantine about self-translating his debut novel, set in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, from the original French into modern Greek.
Rereading Klaus Merz
John Taylor offers a favorable appreciation of the recent retranslation, by Marc Vincenz, of Klaus Merz’s oneiric novella «Jakob schläft», previously translated by Tess Lewis.
Wonders in Aliceland
Pierre Senges leaps down the rabbit-hole in this review of Philippe Jaworski’s new French translations of Lewis Carroll for Gallimard’s prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
The Silent Unraveling of the World
Uruguayan novelist Fernanda Trías speaks with her Persian translator Miaad Banki about the driving forces behind her fiction and the border-crossing journeys of translation.
Quotidian Violence
Michelle Mirabella foregrounds different forms of violence in Marília Arnaud’s story collection «The Book of Affects», translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Ilze Duarte.
