Shushan Avagyan makes an urgent case for preserving the abundant ellipses when translating Zabel Yesayan’s «Averagnerun mej» (1911), an account of massacres in Ottoman Turkey.
Translating the Elliptical
Riff-driven
Jess Jensen Mitchell is lured into the weird and wild world(s) of translation multiples, the genre that Kasia Szymanska identifies and explores in her new book of the same name.
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.
Like a Simile
Zeynep Özer excavates the linguistic and emotional intricacies of Alice Oswald’s long poem «Memorial», which she takes to be emblematic of the practice of creative translation.
Control Alt Delete
Matt Reeck, in this probing piece, suggests that the translator’s famed invisibility may be down to their not having what Michel Foucault calls a “unique discursive physiognomy.”
The White Tower and the Black Box of AI
In pursuit of a new translation project, translator and professor of translation studies Peter Constantine interviews ChatGPT—and gets imaginative (or just imaginary) responses!
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