Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Culture of Translation

ESTHER ALLEN AND SUSAN BERNOFSKY

PART I

THE TRANSLATOR IN THE WORLD

One

Making Sense in Translation: Toward an Ethics of the Art

PETER COLE

Two

Anonymous Sources (On Translators and Translation)

ELIOT WEINBERGER

Three

Fictions of the Foreign: The Paradox of “Foreign-Soundingness”

DAVID BELLOS

Four

Beyond, Between: Translation, Ghosts, Metaphors

MICHAEL EMMERICH

Five

Translation as Scholarship

CATHERINE PORTER

Six

Translation: The Biography of an Artform

ALICE KAPLAN

Seven

The Will to Translate: Four Episodes in a Local History of Global Cultural Exchange

ESTHER ALLEN

PART II

THE TRANSLATOR AT WORK

Eight

The Great Leap: César and the Caesura

FORREST GANDER

Nine

Misreading Orhan Pamuk

MAUREEN FREELY

Ten

On Translating a Poem by Osip Mandelstam

JOSÉ MANUEL PRIETO, TRANSLATED BY ESTHER ALLEN

Eleven

Are We the Folk in This Lok?: Translating in the Plural

CHRISTI A. MERRILL

Twelve

Choosing an English for Hindi

JASON GRUNEBAUM

Thirteen

As Translator, as Novelist: The Translator’s Afterword

HARUKI MURAKAMI, TRANSLATED BY TED GOOSSEN

Fourteen

Haruki Murakami and the Culture of Translation

TED GOOSSEN

Fifteen

Translating Jacopone da Todi: Archaic Poetries and Modern Audiences

LAWRENCE VENUTI

Sixteen

“Ensemble discords”: Translating the Music of Scève’s Délie

RICHARD SIEBURTH

Seventeen

Translation and the Art of Revision

SUSAN BERNOFSKY

Eighteen

The Art of Losing: Polish Poetry and Translation

CLARE CAVANAGH

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