1. Poetry is that which is worth translating. The poem dies when it has no place to go.
2. The object of a translation into English is not a poem in English.
3. A translation creates a specific kind of distance: the reader never forgets that what is being read is a translation.
4. A translation that sounds like a poem in English is usually a bad translation.
5. A translation that strives for the accuracy of a bilingual dictionary is usually a bad translation.
Prix Jean Monnet
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They've announced the winner of this year's prix Jean Monnet de
littérature européenne, awarded for a European work written in or
translated into Fr...
16 hours ago
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