Crossing Borders
Stories and Essays about Translation
Published on 16. January 2018
320 pages
978-1-60980-792-4 (ISBN)
Description
In Joyce Carol Oates's story "The Translation," a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis's "French Lesson I: Le Meurtre," what begins as a lesson in beginner's French takes a sinister turn. In the essay "On Translating and Being Translated," Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation gathers together thirteen stories and five essays that explore the compromises, misunderstandings, traumas, and reconciliations we act out and embody through the art of translation. Guiding her selection is Schwartz's marvelous eye for finding hidden gems, bringing together Levi, Davis, and Oates with the likes of Michael Scammell, Harry Mathews, Chana Bloch, and so many other fine and intriguing voices.
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LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ is the author of twenty-four books, three short story collections, three essay collections, two books of poetry, and three translations from Italian. Among them are the novels Rough Strife (nominated for a National Book Award) and Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction), and the memoirs Ruined by Reading and Not Now, Voyager. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA in fiction and translation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars and Columbia University's School of the Arts, and has taught in many other places both in the US and abroad. Schwartz lives in New York City.
Content
- Intro
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Michelle Herman, "Auslander"
- Joyce Carol Oates, "The Translation"
- Chana Bloch, "Crossing the Border"*
- Sharon May, "The Wizard of Khao-I-Dang"
- Lucy Ferriss, "The Difficulty of Translation"
- Primo Levi, "On Translating and Being Translated,"* translated by Zaia Alexander
- Svetlana Velmar-Jancovic, "Sima Street," translated by Bogdan Rakic
- Lydia Davis, "French Lesson I: Le Meurtre"
- Michael Scammell, "The Servile Path"*
- Todd Hasak-Lowy, "The Task of This Translator"
- Susan Daitch, "Asylum"
- Harry Mathews, "Translation and the Oulipo"*
- Norman Lavers, "The Translator"
- Robin Hemley, "The Perfect Word"
- Laura Esther Wolfson, "In Love with Russian"*
- Courtney Angela Brkic, "The Translator"
- David Huddle, "The Interrogation of the Prisoner Bung by Mister Hawkins and Sergeant Tree"
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz, "Her Native Tongue"
- Author Biographies
- Acknowledgments
- About seven stories press
