This Is a Classic: Translators on Making Writers Global

Half Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nIntroduction: Literary Classics through Translation\nPrologue: The Translator’s Agency and the Literary Classic Abroad: Emily Dickinson’s Voyage to Brazilliput\nChapter 1: Chinese Classics: The Commentarial Tradition\nChapter 2: Happy Hour Homer: On Translating and Performing the Iliad Live in a Bar\nChapter 3: Today in the Temple of Language: Translating Dante\nChapter 4: True Confessions of a Literary Translator\nChapter 5: What Is a Classic? The Case of Esperanto\nChapter 6: The Russian Canon in Retranslation\nChapter 7: Translating Yiddish Classics: Redefining Tradition in Modern Yiddish Literature through the Prism of Kadya Molodowsky\nChapter 8: Víctor Català’s A Film (3,000 meters): Translating a Catalan Classic\nChapter 9: Translation as Storytelling\nChapter 10: In Terror and Pandemic: Translating García Lorca’s Poet in New York\nChapter 11: Stopping at the Surface: Translating Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City and A Breath of Life\nChapter 12: Tanizaki’s The Key in Translation: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Read Me, When I’m (Over) Sixty-Four?\nChapter 13: An Essay on Nichita Stănescu: The Classic and the Personal in Translation\nChapter 14: From Arabic to English, What Is a Classic?\nChapter 15: Translating a Classic into the Future: Tómas Jónsson—Bestseller\nChapter 16: Love, Anger, Madness Making a Classic: Amplifying Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Haitian Trilogy\nChapter 17: What Besides Words?: Translating Bilge Karasu’s A Long Day’s Evening\nChapter 18: Nonsense in a Given Direction: Translating the Timelessness of Marguerite Duras\nChapter 19: “Sentence” as Lifeline: Translating David Albahari’s Novels\nEpilogue\nA Translation Experiment: Kleptomaniac Classic: Ramona\nContributors\nIndex