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Translation and Interpreting StudiesVol. 14:3 (2019) ► pp.351–371
From International Literature to world literature
English translators in 1930s Moscow
This article conceptualizes translation within the theoretical framework of world literature and discusses the role of translators in the multilingual leftist literary journal International Literature. It focuses on the biographies and work of three translators into English: Leonard Mins, Niall Goold-Verschoyle and Anthony Wixley. Living in Moscow in the mid-1930s, they contributed to the international circulation of authors that later became part of the canon of world literature: Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, and Isaac Babel. Exploring these translations within the historical context of Soviet cosmopolitanism, this article aims to uncover the mechanism by which Moscow in this period became a temporary sub-center of world literature.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Behind translators’ invisibility: The English translators of International Literature
- Leonard Mins, translator of Georg Lukács
- Niall Goold-Verschoyle, translator of Bertolt Brecht
- Translator’s invisibility and the case of Anthony Wixley, or Isaac Babel and International Literature
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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