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Publication details [#9256]
Bardeleben, Renate von. 1997. American authors as translators and the role of anthologies. In Veisbergs, Andrejs, Ieva Zauberga and Beata Pernica, eds. The first Riga symposium on pragmatic aspects of translation. Riga: University of Latvia. pp. 12–28.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
The general notion of translating is little better than that of hackneyed writing, an attitude sorely reflected in the renumeration usually granted to translators, who can hardly make a living by it. It is especially the literary translator who suffers from teh low esteem attached to his efforts in comparison to the author, whose international fame relies to a large extent on the translator's talented rendering of his work into another language. The translator usually remains unvisible, also does not even benefit from any share in the royalties. In this article, the author focuses on the translation of American authors. Furthermore he stresses the importance of anthologies as instruments of international transfer.
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