This Is a Classic
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This Is a Classic

Translators on Making Writers Global

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

This Is a Classic

Translators on Making Writers Global

About this book

This Is a Classic illuminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators, without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience. It presents the work of some of today's most accomplished literary translators who translate classics into English or who work closely with translation in the US context and magnifies translators' knowledge, skills, creativity, and relationships with the literary texts they translate, the authors whose works they translate, and the translations they make. The volume presents translators' expertise and insight on how classics get defined according to language pairs and contexts. It advocates for careful attention to the role of translation and translators in reading choices and practices, especially regarding literary classics.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Literary Classics through Translation
  7. Prologue: The Translator’s Agency and the Literary Classic Abroad: Emily Dickinson’s Voyage to Brazilliput
  8. Chapter 1: Chinese Classics: The Commentarial Tradition
  9. Chapter 2: Happy Hour Homer: On Translating and Performing the Iliad Live in a Bar
  10. Chapter 3: Today in the Temple of Language: Translating Dante
  11. Chapter 4: True Confessions of a Literary Translator
  12. Chapter 5: What Is a Classic? The Case of Esperanto
  13. Chapter 6: The Russian Canon in Retranslation
  14. Chapter 7: Translating Yiddish Classics: Redefining Tradition in Modern Yiddish Literature through the Prism of Kadya Molodowsky
  15. Chapter 8: Víctor Català’s A Film (3,000 meters): Translating a Catalan Classic
  16. Chapter 9: Translation as Storytelling
  17. Chapter 10: In Terror and Pandemic: Translating García Lorca’s Poet in New York
  18. Chapter 11: Stopping at the Surface: Translating Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City and A Breath of Life
  19. Chapter 12: Tanizaki’s The Key in Translation: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Read Me, When I’m (Over) Sixty-Four?
  20. Chapter 13: An Essay on Nichita Stănescu: The Classic and the Personal in Translation
  21. Chapter 14: From Arabic to English, What Is a Classic?
  22. Chapter 15: Translating a Classic into the Future: Tómas Jónsson—Bestseller
  23. Chapter 16: Love, Anger, Madness Making a Classic: Amplifying Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Haitian Trilogy
  24. Chapter 17: What Besides Words?: Translating Bilge Karasu’s A Long Day’s Evening
  25. Chapter 18: Nonsense in a Given Direction: Translating the Timelessness of Marguerite Duras
  26. Chapter 19: “Sentence” as Lifeline: Translating David Albahari’s Novels
  27. Epilogue
  28. A Translation Experiment: Kleptomaniac Classic: Ramona
  29. Contributors
  30. Index