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Beyond transfiction: Translators and (their) authors
Edited by Nitsa Ben-Ari, Patricia Godbout, Klaus Kaindl and Shaul Levin
[Translation and Interpreting Studies 11:3] 2016
► pp. 344–360

Reflections on translators and authors

Autobiographical, polemical, historical

Reflections of three sorts on the relations between translators and authors: autobiographical, polemical, and historical. The autobiographical reflections focus on the relation between the author and the German novelist Jeannette Lander and between the author and the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig. The polemical reflections call into question the notion that the translation is of less value than the original, the translator a lesser writer than the author. The historical reflections focus on the history of translating Yiddish into English in America.
Keywords: Franz Rosenzweig, Sholem Aleichem, translators and authors, Jeannette Lander
Published online: 18 November 2016
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