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English

CROSSING BORDERS

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Stories and Essays About Translation

In Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz gathers together thirteen stories and five essays that explore the compromises, misunderstandings, traumas, and reconciliations we act out and embody through the art of translation. Guiding her selection is Schwartz's marvelous eye for finding hidden gems, bringing together Levi, Davis, and Oates with the likes of Michael Scammell, Harry Mathews, Chana Bloch, and so many other fine and intriguing voices.

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Book Published 2018-01-01 by Seven Stories Press

Comments

What an astonishing collection, it seemed as if I could drink it - these pieces exude such humanness, refer effortlessly to the tender place that exists in between languages, and somehow leave you with both everything and nothing to say. -- Ella Frances Sanders, author of Lost in Translation

Some of the best translation stories of our time. -- Susan Bernofsky

A superb translator herself, Lynne Sharon Schwartz has a nuanced grasp of the deeper metaphysics of this transfer of energies, this crossing of psychological thresholds. Her selections are beautiful interrogations from fictional and essayistic vantages, and taken together they rejuvenate the age-old questions surrounding the translator's art. -- Sven Birkerts, author of Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age