My Language Is a Jealous Lover

Contents\nTranslators’ Note: Some Challenges in Translating Exophonic Authors\nForeword: Living and Writing between and across Multiple Languages\nIntroduction\n1 • Childhood\n2 • Displacements\n3 • My Aunt’s Languages\n4 • The Maternity of Language I\n5 • The Language of Love\n6 • The Hospitality of Language\n7 • The Enemy Language\n8 • The Possessiveness of Languages\n9 • The Fluidity of Language\n10 • Without Style\n11 • The Scent of the Panther\n12 • Prisoners of Our Own Language\n13 • Two Short Stories: Landolfi and Kosztolányi\n14 • Two Old Children\n15 • Poetics of Chaos\n16 • Exile\n17 • Writing in Another Language\n18 • False Friends\n19 • Interference\n20 • Every Foreigner Is in Their Own Way a Translator\n21 • Some Cases of Self-Translation\n22 • Identity and National Language\n23 • The Language of Death\n24 • Language as Property\n25 • The Abandonment of Language\n26 • The Difficulty of Abandoning One’s Own Language\n27 • Language as a Line of Defense\n28 • The Maternity of Language II\nNotes\nBibliography\nNotes on Contributors