Translation as Transhumance

A humanist meditation on the art of translation that also serves as a fascinating account of wartime danger, hospitality and human kinship.
Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything-including their native languages-to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, she translated poets from East Berlin and Vietnam to help broadcast their defiance to the rest of the world. In this half memoire, half philosophical treatise Gansel's debut illustrates the estrangement every translator experiences for the privilege of moving between tongues, and muses on how translation becomes an exercise of empathy between those in exile.

Contributor: Ros Schwartz (Translated by), Lauren Elkin (Foreword by), Lauren Hook (Associate editor), JC Duclos (Preface by), Ros Schwartz (Afterword by), Drew Stevens (Designed by)

Translator: Ros Schwartz

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