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Steven Corcoran
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As exotic as China, as American as the FBI

Translation diary on Richard Ford’s Be Mine / Valentinstag

Frank Heibert

Valentine's Day is Frank Heibert’s seventh translation of a Richard Ford book – the latest (and last) one about Frank Bascombe. In the TOLEDO Journal, Heibert talks about Bascombe’s penchant for wry humour and how to translate this humour, about his own relationship with this headstrong US everyman, and why even a contemporary US novel can use a glossary.

Journale

Vernon, I feel you

Journal on the translation of Vernon Subutex by Luz & Virginie Despentes

Lilian Pithan

The French comic artist Luz has adapted Virginie Despentes' novel Vernon Subutex: for 300 pages, he sends the ageing record dealer through a Paris that is wild and spiked with pop culture references. Every character's voice is entirely unique. How can the polyphony of the original be conveyed? What are the boundaries of this play with word and image? Vivid and entertaining, this TOLEDO-Journal revolves around just these questions.

TALKS

Anthropophagy and Hospitality

on Oswald de Andrade and Haroldo de Campos

Oliver Precht

Anthropophagy is a central concept in brasilian culture of the 20th Century. Oliver Precht has translated several of the most important texts on the topic into German. In his essay, he illuminates the political dimension of the ubiquitous devouring (and translating) of other cultures.

TALKS

Culture Vulturing! A confession or even two

Patricia Klobusiczky

„Wie umgehen mit einer Berührungsangst, die ich erst seit Kurzem verspüre? Seit der Begriff 'Kulturelle Aneignung' derart wahllos für alle möglichen Formen der Annäherung und Inspiration verwendet wird, dass er zum Kampfwort (...) verkommt?“ – fragt sich Patricia Klobusiczky in ihrem Beitrag, in dem sie offen und humorvoll diese neue Berührungsangst mit uns teilt. Gemeinsam mit dem britisch-nigerianischen Autor Ralph Leonard, der Schweizer Musikerin Sophie Hunger und anderen erkundet sie die Gefahren, vor allem aber die Chancen jener Form der Aneignung.

TALKS

Portrait of a Woman in the Restorer's Workshop

On the retranslation of Honoré de Balzac’s Cousin Bette

Nicola Denis

The French classic Cousine Bette by Honoré de Balzac was crying out to be retranslated, as Nicola Denis shows indisputably in this text. With the delicacy of a restorer of classical paintings she reveals what lies underneath the work of her predecessors, whose translations were published in 1911 and 1923. The text that emerges tells a significantly different story, especially with regard to Balzac's women.

TALKS

A Reunion Thirty-Five Years Later

On the revised translation of Audre Lorde's autobiography: Zami. A new spelling of my name

Karen Nölle

Karen Nölle has translated Aurde Lorde's autobiography a second time after thirty-five years. In her TOLEDO TALKS essay she reports on how the discourse has changed since the 1980s, how computers and the internet can help the translation process and how she re-encountered her beginner-self through her retranslation.

TALKS

Questions of survival

Between Forgetting and Making Present. On the new translation of Viktor Shklovsky's Zoo.

Olga Radetzkaja

In her contribution to the new German edition of Viktor Shklovsky's Zoo, Olga Radetzkaya illuminates how translation connects times - and how every new translation opens a new door to a book, behind which something unexpected is often concealed. "Questions of Survival" is an invitation to dive into the unique cosmos of Zoo - Russian Berlin in the 1920s -, into the tangled history of this edition and into the ways in which this 99-year-old text remains surprisingly contemporary.

TALKS

Spengler, His Self & I – De la Soul

Christophe Lucchese

»I turned down the translation. This dilemma, abstract until you are confronted with it, of whether you can translate a text that goes against your personal opinions, is something you hope never to have to decide upon, because the choice between earning a crust and sticking to your morals is anything but easy given the precariousness of your condition as a translator. But it was no longer a dilemma at this point.«

TALKS

Personal message

Stéphanie Lux

»It is commonly accepted that you do not emerge unscathed from reading certain books, but what to say about translating them? Traces remain of the discomfort I felt when transposing some disturbing and unhealthy emotions or atmospheres into my mother tongue. Images that imprinted themselves on my brain, modifying my perception of certain situations, of certain objects in the world around me.«

TALKS

Translating and having translated – a political act

Julie Tirard

»The real question I want to ask myself as a human being, and therefore as a writer and translator, since my job is to portray the world – mine and someone else's – with my words, is: how can I be a good ally?«

TALKS

Perspective turn

Jayrôme Robinet

»One of my Berührungsängste was indeed not the intuition that I did not have the necessary horizon of experience, but on the contrary, that I was too close to my text to maintain the healthy distance needed to produce a good translation.«

TALKS

1984. Translating terror

Josée Kamoun

In her new translation of Orwell’s 1984, French translator Josée Kamoun opts to set the novel in the present tense and to replace the neologisms of the first translation that have passed into everyday language. Novlangue becomes néoparler, and Big Brother now addresses you as tu. In her essay, she sheds light on her translation decisions and on how this new translation takes us out of our literary comfort zone.