Samuel Martin pays tribute to the writer and translator Paul Auster (1947-2024), recalling how their two paths crossed and revisiting Auster’s translations of Joseph Joubert.
Unlocked Doors & Inner Rewards
Following Threads and Leaving Traces (Part 2)
In Part 2 of their conversation, Breon Mitchell and Chris Clarke discuss further strategies for maintaining translation archives so as to ensure their usefulness and durability.
Fixers
Zrinka Stahuljak outlines the role, importance, and fascination of the people she terms “fixers,” pivotal figures in the translation history of the early modern Mediterranean.
The Translator’s Visibility
Noah Rawlings teases out the implicit theory of translation to be found in Lydia Davis’s recent essay collections and reflects on the translation strategies she has deployed.
“Not Sacrifice the Ease of the French” (Part I)
Vincent Kling examines the surprising, negative reception that Marianne Moore's translation of La Fontaine's «Fables», to ask, more generally, how to fairly appraise a work of literary translation.
Introduction to the Translator’s Preface to «Worlds Built to Fall Apart»
Erik Beranek discusses translation issues in this introduction to his translator's preface to David Lapoujade's «Worlds Built to Fall Apart».
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