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This Is a Classic: Translators on Making Writers Global

By Regina Galasso

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2023
ISBN
9781501376917, 9781501376900, 9781501376948, 9781501376931
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8895482 bytes)
Series
Literatures, Cultures, Translation
Pages
\345
Time added
2023-05-22 04:22:12

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This is a Classic is an exploration of what it means to translate an established or future literary classic and how it is done by some of today’s most celebrated translators. When readers pick up literary classics from languages other than English, they often forget that they are not reading the actual words the author set down. Galasso argues that every classic depends on translation—and every new generation requires its own translation of The Metamorphosis or Anna Karenina because every translation is a new interpretation. This is a Classic brings together translators who have created English versions of canonical works from a variety of languages, including Spanish, French, Yiddish, Turkish, Catalan, Greek, Serbian, German, Italian, Icelandic, Russian, Romanian, Portuguese, and Ancient Greek. They offer insights into their processes, challenges, and craft, providing readers with an appreciation of how a classic is shaped by translation, and how translation is essential for a classic’s survival and the creation of original literary works. Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction: Literary Classics through Translation Prologue: The Translator’s Agency and the Literary Classic Abroad: Emily Dickinson’s Voyage to Brazilliput Chapter 1: Chinese Classics: The Commentarial Tradition Chapter 2: Happy Hour Homer: On Translating and Performing the Iliad Live in a Bar Chapter 3: Today in the Temple of Language: Translating Dante Chapter 4: True Confessions of a Literary Translator Chapter 5: What Is a Classic? The Case of Esperanto Chapter 6: The Russian Canon in Retranslation Chapter 7: Translating Yiddish Classics: Redefining Tradition in Modern Yiddish Literature through the Prism of Kadya Molodowsky Chapter 8: Víctor Català’s A Film (3,000 meters): Translating a Catalan Classic Chapter 9: Translation as Storytelling Chapter 10: In Terror and Pandemic: Translating García Lorca’s Poet in New York Chapter 11: Stopping at the Surface: Translating Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City and A Breath of Life Chapter 12: Tanizaki’s The Key in Translation: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Read Me, When I’m (Over) Sixty-Four? Chapter 13: An Essay on Nichita Stănescu: The Classic and the Personal in Translation Chapter 14: From Arabic to English, What Is a Classic? Chapter 15: Translating a Classic into the Future: Tómas Jónsson—Bestseller Chapter 16: Love, Anger, Madness Making a Classic: Amplifying Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Haitian Trilogy Chapter 17: What Besides Words?: Translating Bilge Karasu’s A Long Day’s Evening Chapter 18: Nonsense in a Given Direction: Translating the Timelessness of Marguerite Duras Chapter 19: “Sentence” as Lifeline: Translating David Albahari’s Novels Epilogue A Translation Experiment: Kleptomaniac Classic: Ramona Contributors Index

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