Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays about Translation

Book Overview

A collection of stories and essays about translating and translators

"What an astonishing collection, it seemed as if I could drink it--these pieces exude such humanness, refer effortlessly to the tender place that exists in between languages, and somehow leave you with both everything and nothing to say." --Ella Frances Sanders, author of Lost in Translation

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609809742
• ISBN13: 9781609809744
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.1"