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BOOK REVIEWS: 73 Experiences in Translation by Umberto Eco, tr. Alastair McEwen Gregory Conti, Reviewer 75 The Love You Promised Me by Silvia Molina, tr. David Unger Patricia Schoch, Reviewer 79 The Station Hill Blanchot Reader, trs. Lydia Davis, Paul Auster, and Robert Lamberton Joanne Stroud, Reviewer 80 Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Source, tr. Anna Silvas Patricia Schoch, Reviewer 84 First Cause/Primera Causa by Tino Villanueva, tr. Lisa Horowitz James Hoggard, Reviewer Cover Art: Caparisoned Horse. China, Tang Dynasty, 8th century The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art Photo by Tom Jenkins
EDITORIAL: A NATIONAL CENTER AND THINK TANK FOR TRANSLATION By Rainer Schulte The events of September 11, 2001, have changed the ways we look at the world. It is the first time in the history of the United States that a major catastrophe has happened on American soil. Thus, we are confronted with problems that don’t seem to have an immediate solution, and dark clouds of fear have penetrated our thoughts and feelings. On the one hand, we are witnessing the disastrous consequences of the destructive ingenuity of individuals spread all over the globe; on the other hand, we are experiencing a violent clash of languages and cultures that forces us to rethink our attitudes toward the world view of other nations, and therefore we must find ways to navigate through the diverse landscapes of languages and cultures, if the world is to have a chance to survive into the next century. In times of violent disruptions in the communication between cultures, our attention should immediately be focused on the translator as the most important mediator in a global world. Yet, there are very few signs that the consciousness of the media has been raised with respect to the essential role that translation and translation thinking must play in our contemporary society. Newspaper editors continue to decrease the number of reviews that deal with works translated from foreign languages and are reluctant to dedicate space to topics that could further the understanding of foreign cultures seen through the eyes of the translator, and publishers shy away from publishing translations, because a translated work greatly increases the production price of a book. However, translators are the most qualified persons to build bridges between languages and cultures. By the very nature of the translators’ training, they live with one foot in their native language and with the other in the foreign language, and therefore they can articulate the differences that exist between cultures. Above all, the translator starts with a sense of openness and curiosity. The essential question must be: what is there that is different in the other culture and how can I, the translator, illuminate that difference and transfer it into the possibilities of a new language? At all times, the translator will avoid a somewhat unconscious attitude of assuming that people in other cultures react the same way we do. They don’t, and most inhabitants of other nations resent it when ideas and opinions are being imposed on them in total disregard of their own traditions and habits. Translators change our perspective toward the “other” in foreign countries. They constantly make an effort to enter into the sensibility of people living in other cultures. They come without prejudices and open themselves to the foreign. They embrace what is new and strange, and they try to bring their new insights back to their own country to enrich their daily lives. The translator becomes the master of communication by building linkages between people who walk in different languages and therefore interpret the world in different ways. The translator’s greatest contribution to furthering interaction and understanding of people from diverse languages is the ability to initiate and cultivate dialogue. By its very nature, dialogue creates understanding, and understanding reduces fear. The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is entering its 25th year of existence. Throughout the years, the members of this organization, independent as well as academic translators, have built a community of translators who come together once a year to discuss all aspects of the creative and critical process of literary translations. During the year, the ALTA members continue their dialogue through the publication of the ALTA Newsletter, and to a certain extent, through the publication of Translation Review. Outside of the annual meeting, however, there is no place in the United States that translators could consider their orientation point. If we look around in the structure of our Translation Review 1
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Page 7 and 8: INTERVIEW WITH MABEL LEE: TRANSLATI
Page 9 and 10: novel with him when he left China i
Page 11 and 12: Q. Could you have translated the ti
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Page 17 and 18: happy gods, who laugh Olympianly to
Page 19 and 20: I’ve brought along the Big Guy, b
Page 21 and 22: INTERVIEW WITH YANG XIANYI By Qian
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Page 31 and 32: SOME PITFALLS OF TRANSLATING DRAMA
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The translations I will be looking
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time highlighting the profundity:
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cannot replace the auditory recepti
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life but rather as the continuation
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global literature in an English-lan
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understanding of Turkish literature
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poet, in a very inclusionary experi
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WRITING AND THE POWER OF WORDS: TRA
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Africa to win more than souls. Thus
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Chinese fountain, hesitated once mo
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a rotten and ungrateful bunch!” S
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Book Reviews Umberto Eco. Experienc
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were entitled, not only to make rad
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making system based on Mexican Indi
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The Station Hill Blanchot Reader.Ly
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challenges she encountered while tr
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current story lines, or a story lin
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language is not considered primaril
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