French novelist and former Oulipo president Paul Fournel reflects on translation, on being translated, on translating the Oulipo, and on writing as a form of translation.
To Translate Is to Write
A Wordless Coma
Brice Matthieussent takes a witty, provocative look at the figure of the translator, questioning the aptness of the French term “le passeur” to describe the translator’s role.
On the Point of Becoming
On the occasion of their second Duras co-translation, Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan reflect on «The Easy Life», Duras’s ongoing influence, and their evolving co-translation relationship.
Translation as Instrument of Empire
Joshua Martin Price elucidates the fraught role of translation in Europe’s colonization of the Americas, showing it to have been a significant weapon in the imperial arsenal.
Hopscotch Translation’s Second Anniversary Forum
For Hopscotch’s second anniversary, we asked a handful of translators to tell us about the “impassable” words that they’d found it tricky to bring into their target languages.
En passant
Erín Moure summons the reader to be constantly attentive to the trembling movement of (and between) languages, in this nimble reflection on the notion of the “intranslatable.”
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