Translation Multiples

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"[A] celebratory, pluralist approach to translation."---Jess Jensen Mitchell, Hopscotch Translation "A refreshing, contemporary approach to translation. . . . This book can be read as a scholarly study but also as an introduction to a particular line of avant-garde literary practice and, as such, it may be inspiring for both literary scholars and creative practitioners. In the field of translation studies, it will become required reading."---Magdalena Kay, Canadian Slavonic Papers "A welcome reminder of the vitality of literature and literary studies in non-major languages."---Ina Schabert, Translation and Literature "[A] landmark study."---Alex Braslavsky, Slavonic and East European Review "Translation Multiples is a pleasure to read, a crisply written text which thinks sensitively about contemporary, experimental literary works. The work is generous, adventurous, and open to multiple readerships: it is a rewarding addition to translation studies, contemporary Anglophone, Polish, and Slavic literary studies, while also engaging with debates in contemporary literature."---Panayiotis Xenophontos, Slavic and East European Journal "Insightful. . . . This innovative study not only defines and contextualises an important new concept within translation studies but also situates it firmly within the Polish post-communist literary landscape and analyses canonical works from a fresh perspective."---Daisy Towers, Babel "[Translation Multiple's] greatest value lies in its emphasis on how studying translation can reveal cultural mores, political attitudes, and varying degrees of social health. . . . Szymanska's book demonstrates language's ambiguity as an inherent element of translation. Translation brings us face to face with the excessive multidimensionality of literary texts. Perhaps for some the realization that we use language but are far from controlling it (or even understanding it) might prove unsettling. Yet this encounter helps us understand the radical potential for freedom laid within the human genome inside language itself."---Matt Reeck, On the Seawall "One of the book's major strengths lies in introducing a broader international readership to translation practices and theorisation grounded in a historical context that has been rarely explored in Translation Studies: the early years of Poland's transition from a communist to a capitalist regime. . . . I am truly impressed by Szymanska's ability to demonstrate, with clarity and conviction, how plural translations can strengthen democratic resilience in today's polarised world."---Hanna Pieta, The Translator "Unlike academic translation multiples, which, in their existence, are neither rare nor baffling, Szymanska's examples are of literary bent. This is a refreshing approach, for it reminds us that to make art is to play-question, revise, complicate-and when we read the works under discussion, we immediately recognize their experimental ethos. . . . Szymanska's study is not only deeply researched and well-argued but also written in an engaging style."---Piotr Florczyk, Delos