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The Fictions of Translation
Edited by Judith Woodsworth
[Benjamins Translation Library 139] 2018
► pp. 15–30

Chapter 1
The self-translator as author

Modern self-fashioning and ancient rhetoric in Federman, Lakhous and De Kuyper

Article outline
  • Snapshot 1: Raymond Federman
  • Interlude: Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Snapshot 2: Amara Lakhous
  • Snapshot 3: Eric de Kuyper
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 February 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.139.01gru
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