tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post2581160488185449263..comments2024-03-25T22:38:46.822+08:00Comments on in lieu of a field guide: Reading list: "Translators" in fictionRisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-81303005583317541792018-06-01T20:42:47.491+08:002018-06-01T20:42:47.491+08:00Thanks so much for adding the titles (and editing ...Thanks so much for adding the titles (and editing to include the translators)!Shelby Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07959107636568660882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-45001811973038013222018-05-24T20:45:04.854+08:002018-05-24T20:45:04.854+08:00Thank you for sharing two wonderful translated tit...Thank you for sharing two wonderful translated titles, Shelby. I added them to the list. (Which reminds me that I need to edit the list and add the names of translators to many titles.)Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-39145628308822415842018-05-24T05:18:34.138+08:002018-05-24T05:18:34.138+08:00Hi, Thanks for this great list! I wanted to give y...Hi, Thanks for this great list! I wanted to give you a couple of other titles in case you'd like to add them. One is my own translation - Heavens on Earth, by Carmen Boullosa, published by Deep Vellum (2017). The second one is another one due out this August also from Deep Vellum - Revenge of the Translator, by Brice Matthieussent, translated by Emma Ramadan.Shelby Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07959107636568660882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-90010331524697879342012-01-10T19:16:12.445+08:002012-01-10T19:16:12.445+08:00Thanks for the link, Gary. Downloading it now.Thanks for the link, Gary. Downloading it now.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-66170465340707857512012-01-10T03:39:46.534+08:002012-01-10T03:39:46.534+08:00Not a trans Fiction, but you may find it interesti...Not a trans Fiction, but you may find it interesting it's a PDF essay by poet & translator <br />Harry Guest(French and Japanese) it's called - Translation Both Ways.<br />http://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/HarryGuest-TranslationbothWays.pdf.pdf@parridhlanternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12793548943992250238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-80914885804170039372011-12-29T01:29:20.611+08:002011-12-29T01:29:20.611+08:00Thanks, Scott. I've added them plus another bo...Thanks, Scott. I've added them plus another book by Mathews.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-77739263178491626752011-12-28T00:56:48.667+08:002011-12-28T00:56:48.667+08:00What a great compilation. I have a few more to add...What a great compilation. I have a few more to add if there's still room:<br /><br />Harry Mathews' "The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium"<br /><br />Cesar Aira's "La Princesa Primavera" (not yet available in English, but with a translator as protagonist)<br /><br />Some of James Thurber's short stories also play with the pitfalls of translation and seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-70277601139179892022011-12-26T11:55:07.162+08:002011-12-26T11:55:07.162+08:00Thanks, Jodie, for bringing these books to my atte...Thanks, Jodie, for bringing these books to my attention. They're now on the list.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-490627250698469912011-12-26T04:04:09.256+08:002011-12-26T04:04:09.256+08:00You should add Suzette Haden Elgin's Native To...You should add Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue and Judas Rose to this list.Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660462729031094789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-17817828099349017242011-12-25T12:02:38.581+08:002011-12-25T12:02:38.581+08:00I've added it to the list. Thanks for the sugg...I've added it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion, Séamus. Incidentally it became available in BookMooch and I requested for it. So a copy is wending its way to me.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-78982326333729031512011-12-25T08:16:49.798+08:002011-12-25T08:16:49.798+08:00Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker would also fit ...Russell Hoban's <b>Riddley Walker</b> would also fit nicely into this list. There is a wonderful sequence where a piece of 'old' writing is interpreted. The whole book involves the reader in a task of interpretation and much of the interest in the book lies in how the language has changed over the imagined era between now and the now of the book.Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-59251084865434283492011-12-24T08:06:39.736+08:002011-12-24T08:06:39.736+08:00Those too, Gary, will be formidable additions to t...Those too, Gary, will be formidable additions to the nonfiction list. <a href="http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DAH/English/Programs/MFA/Pages/ReadingList.aspx" rel="nofollow">Here</a>’s an expanded one (the bottommost list).Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-45690740793142964912011-12-23T23:02:53.623+08:002011-12-23T23:02:53.623+08:00How about Gregory Rabassa's If This Be Treason...How about Gregory Rabassa's If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, David Bellos's Is That a Fish in Your Ear?<br />Translation and the Meaning of Everything,The Three Percent Problem: Rants and Responses on Publishing, Translation, and the Future of Reading by Chad W. Post, although these are more to do with translation as is my favourite George Steiner's After Babel.@parridhlanternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12793548943992250238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-67659356692485561662011-12-23T14:33:16.111+08:002011-12-23T14:33:16.111+08:00P.S. The following books are also about translator...P.S. The following books are also about translators and interpreters, but they're nonfiction.<br /><br />Benjawan Poomsan Becker – <i>The Interpreter’s Journal</i> (memoir)<br />Valentin M. Berezhkov – <i>At Stalin’s Side: His Interpreter's Memoirs From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Dictator's Empire</i> (memoir)<br />Roger Dingman – <i>Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy andRisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.com