Amanda Andrei attends Geffen Playhouse’s recent production of Samuel Beckett’s play «Waiting for Godot» and comes away with a few insights or “provocations” for translators.
The Office, The Daily Show, and Waiting for Godot
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.
Following Threads and Leaving Traces (Part 1)
Breon Mitchell chats with our own Chris Clarke about the untold riches of translators’ archives, how they are compiled in the first place and what is involved in curating them.
“Not Sacrifice the Ease of the French”
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.
Privilege, Authority, and the Authorial Self
Stiliana Milkova Rousseva casts a critical eye on Jhumpa Lahiri’s self-translations from Italian, focusing in particular on the recently published collection of «Roman Stories».
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