{"id":257,"date":"2011-11-03T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T02:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2011-11-03T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T08:50:09","slug":"257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"More Press on Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salon.com<\/a> has another article on translation, by Kevin Canfield, misleadingly titled “How do you say ‘balls of gold’ in French?<\/a>” (wouldn’t a more accurate headline be “How do you say ‘des couilles en or<\/em>‘ in English”?). Nevertheless, it’s a decent take. Here’s an excerpt that displays an interesting way of considering an old problem:<\/p>\n

Not too long ago, Imre Goldstein completed a translation of Hungarian novelist Peter Nadas\u2019 1,100-page \u201cParallel Stories,\u201d which comes out in the U.S. in November (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Does Goldstein believe translators are appreciated, and properly compensated, for the work they do? \u201cI do not,\u201d he said in an email from Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

But, Goldstein added, \u201cI reach back to the theater where I spent more than four decades, to draw not a conclusion but only a parallel. Potentially the most gratifying and elevating teamwork, a theatrical production, as everyone knows, requires the input of many collaborators. Often, reviewers write only about some, say, the director, the actors and the costume designer, leaving out others, such as the composer, the musicians, the lighting designer, fight choreographer and all the invisible but indispensable tech crew, without whom there would be no production. When, as a translator, I am not mentioned in a review, I console myself by assuming that the reviewer read the text as if it were the original.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Salon.com has another article on translation, by Kevin Canfield, misleadingly titled “How do you say ‘balls of gold’ in French?” (wouldn’t a more accurate headline be “How do you say ‘des couilles en or‘ in English”?). Nevertheless, it’s a decent … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[56,54,55],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8srwF-257","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3236,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3236","url_meta":{"origin":257,"position":0},"title":"G\u00f6ran Malmqvist on Translation & SOAS","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"For the centenary of SOAS G\u00f6ran Malmqvist talks about translation and SOAS: When asked what his views are on the art of translating he responds: \u201cWorld literature is translation and translation is world literature \u2013 without translation there is no world literature, and that is true.\u201d He explains: \u201cAs far\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.soas.ac.uk\/centenarytimeline\/files\/2015\/06\/Malmqvist.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2516,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2516","url_meta":{"origin":257,"position":1},"title":"In Other Words: a discussion about translation and translators at Asian Review","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Julia Lovell, Sophie Lewis, Arunava Sinha, Marcia Lynx Qualey and I took part in a discussion at Asian Review of Books on the nature of translation and the role of translators in bringing Asian literature to the English-speaking world. 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