Part of
Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fictionEdited by Klaus Kaindl and Karlheinz Spitzl
[Benjamins Translation Library 110] 2014
► pp. 37–50
Edited by Klaus Kaindl and Karlheinz Spitzl
[Benjamins Translation Library 110] 2014
► pp. 37–50
The power of fiction as theory
Some exemplary lessons on translation from Borges’s stories
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Cited by
Cited by 5 other publications
Kaindl, Klaus
2018. Chapter 9. The remaking of the translator’s reality. In The Fictions of Translation [Benjamins Translation Library, 139], ► pp. 157 ff. 
Kaindl, Klaus
2018. Chapter 1.4. Fictional representations. In A History of Modern Translation Knowledge [Benjamins Translation Library, 142], ► pp. 51 ff.
Pralas, Jelena & Olivera Kusovac
Van Wyke, Ben
Woodsworth, Judith
2021. Chapter 16. Dressing up for Halloween. In Literary Translator Studies [Benjamins Translation Library, 156], ► pp. 293 ff.
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