Vancouver-based writer Don English shares his take on the most recent Jean-Patrick Manchette offering from NYRB Classics: «No Room at the Morgue», translated by Alyson Waters.
The Suffering Detective: Manchette’s «No Room at the Morgue»
The Naming of Things
Lara Vergnaud discusses semantics, sonority, and “rightness” in the translation of proper names—with examples from her own work and from that of other translators.
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