The Politics of Translation
Marina Warner: Translate this!, 11 October 2018
This Little Art
by Kate Briggs.
Fitzcarraldo, 365 pp., £12.99, September 2017,978 1 910695 45 6 Show More
by Kate Briggs.
Fitzcarraldo, 365 pp., £12.99, September 2017,
Translation as Transhumance
by Mireille Gansel, translated by Ros Schwartz.
Les Fugitives, 150 pp., £10, November 2017,978 0 9930093 3 4 Show More
by Mireille Gansel, translated by Ros Schwartz.
Les Fugitives, 150 pp., £10, November 2017,
Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto
by Mark Polizzotti.
MIT, 168 pp., £17.99, May 2018,978 0 262 03799 0 Show More
by Mark Polizzotti.
MIT, 168 pp., £17.99, May 2018,
The 100 Best Novels in Translation
by Boyd Tonkin.
Galileo, 304 pp., £14.99, June 2018,978 1 903385 67 8 Show More
by Boyd Tonkin.
Galileo, 304 pp., £14.99, June 2018,
The Work of Literary Translation
by Clive Scott.
Cambridge, 285 pp., £75, June 2018,978 1 108 42682 4 Show More
by Clive Scott.
Cambridge, 285 pp., £75, June 2018,
“... and indeed zeal, are needed from translators. In their recent books about translation, Mireille Gansel and Mark Polizzotti come close to playing the role of scouts – Polizzotti is interesting on the interconnections of translation and intelligence, and surveys a number of translators who were information-gatherers for their paymasters ... ”
