Tag: Week 2: NTM2019

September 22, 2019

Reading List: Crime, Deception and Punishment in Translation

We are continuing to explore literary translations as part of National Translation Month with this reading list of books that delve into themes of crime, deception and punishment. •  •  •  •  •  • From the European Perspectives: A Series in Social...

September 21, 2019

Susanne Fusso on Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage and Yuz Aleshkovsky’s Contribution to Russian Literature

“Joseph Brodsky once noted that Aleshkovsky had a Mozartian ear for the Russian language, and Nikolai Nikolaevich (1970), his first novel, as well as Camouflage (1978), his fourth – written the year before the author emigrated permanently to the US – are indeed virtuoso...

September 20, 2019

José Vergara on Teaching One of the World’s Worst Detective Stories

“Sasha Sokolov’s Between Dog and Wolf, delivered in Alexander Boguslawski’s masterful translation, comprises a daring act of immersion into the depths of language that results in semantic spasms of the great Russian literary body. The highly experimental novel, which unquestionably...

September 20, 2019

Delving Down into Argot: Susan Emanuel on Translating Vice, Crime, and Poverty

“This is a lively and fun read. More than tracing the evolution of living conditions of the poor and indigent, Vice, Crime, and Poverty also represents an important contribution to the histoire des mentalités, telling us how different eras viewed the poor in...

September 20, 2019

Emil Draitser on Redemption and How the Soviet Union Attempted to Cover-Up the Holocaust

“Redemption is awash with brutal truths, rude awakenings and painful self-discoveries. Gorenstein doesn’t make it easy for his reader: His forbidding theme is the aftermath of the Holocaust — the aftershock of ‘ineluctable, planned murder’ — and his protagonist is...

September 19, 2019

Mark Teeuwen and Kate Wildman Nakai on Lust, Commerce, and Corruption

“What better way to explore the riches of Japanese society before its “opening” to the West than through this masterful translation of one of the most colorful social commentaries of the time? Student and scholar alike will treasure this volume.”...

September 19, 2019

Q&A: Olivier Wierviorka on The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945

“Olivier Wieviorka treats the resistance in Western Europe as a multinational coalition. Anglo-Americans supplied arms and funding to resistance groups on the continent, and Resistance movements in turn aided in the Allied war effort. It was part tug-of-war, résistants striving to maintain...

September 18, 2019

Dominique Kalifa on the Translation of Vice, Crime, and Poverty

“Dominique Kalifa is one of the best French cultural historians of his generation and a worthy successor to Alain Corbin at the Sorbonne. Vice, Crime, and Poverty examines the urban ‘underworld,’ not in the twentieth-century sense of organized crime but as an...

September 18, 2019

Thomas Hansen on Translating Ernst Jünger

“Ernst Jünger’s record of German-occupied Paris and the battlefields of the Caucasus is a treasure trove for readers interested in the history of the Second World War. Even more, though, it is a literary accomplishment of the first order, a...

September 16, 2019

Book Giveaway! Translations About WWII and its Aftermath

World War II is a shared human history told through many languages and perspectives. Our works in translation can provide a more complete picture of this catastrophic period that gripped the world for years. This week, we’ll begin with a...