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.
The Visitor Peering over My Shoulder
Jean-Yves Masson reveals what it can mean for a translator to be haunted by an author, in this intimate account of his affinity with the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Down the Rabbit Hole
Michelle Mirabella speaks with Emily Hunsberger about the stakes and strategies involved in translating «Wonderland: Crónicas of Belonging in América» by Melanie Márquez Adams.
What Brings Us to a Halt (Part 2)
John Taylor, in this second part of «What Brings Us to a Halt», responds to his friend and collaborator Franca Mancinelli with an essay about poetry, botany, and translation.
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