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,
“... which is also used to describe the dancing girls at Solomon’s court, and simply means young and nubile. Jerome translates it as virgo, adding divine authority to the virulent cult of sexual disgust that shaped Christian moral theology (the Quran, free from this linguistic trap, does not connect Mariam/Mary’s miraculous nature with moral horror ... ”