A Tree as a Record : On Translating Mahagony by Édouard Glissant

Titre: A Tree as a Record : On Translating Mahagony by Édouard Glissant; Small Axe
Titre du volume: 3
Volume: 22
Date: 2018
Langue(s): Anglais
Issn: 0799-0537
Résumé: This essay briefly describes the process of working with the author Édouard Glissant in translating his works, with a particular focus on the novel <i>Mahagony</i>. It explores the extent to which a personal relationship with the author provides both special insights and frustration for the translator. It treats the part played by the requirement that a translator “write” the work again after the author’s first writing and how this relates to the expected readers of both the “original” and the translation. A solution is found in how words within a text can function to guide a translator to a satisfying transition of that work from one language to another.
Creator: Betsy Wing
Subject: nettoyé
pages: 123-128
short title: A Tree as a Record