In Translation
Honouring Sheila Fischman
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2013
248 pages
978-0-7735-8985-8 (ISBN)
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An homage to Canada's pre-eminent literary translator and a tribute to the connections created through translation.
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Simon Sherry:
Sherry Simon, distinguished professor emerita at Concordia University, is the author and editor of several books including Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life.Sherry Simon is a professor in the Département d'études françaises at Concordia University and the author of Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City.
Sherry Simon, distinguished professor emerita at Concordia University, is the author and editor of several books including Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life.Sherry Simon is a professor in the Département d'études françaises at Concordia University and the author of Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE - Beginnings
- That Summer in North Hatley
- F.R. Scott and the Poetry of Translation
- Notes on the Birth of a Translator
- The Agency of Sheila Fischman: A Tribute
- PART TWO - The Art of Translation
- The Ongoing Commedia
- Nothing in My Formative Years Indicated That I Might Become a Translator
- Creatively Re-transposing Christa Wolf: They Divided the Sky
- To Foreignize or Not to Foreignize: From a Translator's Notebook
- A Handful of Metaphors: What I Do When I Do Literary Translation
- Edouard Roditi: A Polyglot in the Twentieth Century
- PART THREE - Words of Sheila Fischman
- Water
- The Anguish of the Heron
- Interviews with Sheila Fischman
- PART FOUR - Témoignages
- My Translator, My Sister ...
- What I Learned from Her
- Translations
- All You Read Is Love
- Sheila's Bridges and Cuisine
- In the Moon's Wings
- Editing Sheila Fischman
- Sheila Fischman and the True Nature of Federalism: A Fable
- Pure Memory
- The Language Alchemist
- Merci, Sheila!
- Poem
- Complete List of Translations by Sheila Fischman
- Contributors
