In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means
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In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means is a 2013 book edited by Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky, published by Columbia University Press.
It is about dimensions of translating works from other languages into English. The book has 18 essays total.Villanueva, p. 63.
Background
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Several of the authors are translators, while others are other kinds of writers.
Almost all of the articles had been previously published. Of those, the earliest article was first published in 2003, and the latest one was published in 2011. Elizabeth Heffington of the Lipscomb University Library characterized some of the authors of the individual articles as "well-known" and some of them as "lesser known".{{cite magazine|last=Heffington|first=Elizabeth|url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/in-translation-translators-on-their-work-and-what-it-means|title=In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means|journal=Library Journal|year=2013|volume=138|issue=9|page=79|access-date=2025-06-13}}
Content
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The editors wrote the introduction, which describes how English has become the worldwide lingua franca and consequences of this.
Many of the articles cite many of the same sources. Publishers Weekly stated that this is because the subject of the work is a highly specialized field, and that the effect is that "the chapters occasionally blur together."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-231-15969-2|title=In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means|magazine=The Publishers weekly|year=2013|volume=260|issue=9|page=61|access-date=2025-06-13}}
Haruki Murakami is the author of one of the articles.
Reception
Publishers Weekly ranked it as a PW pick and described it as "a strong introduction to the field."
Kirkus Reviews stated that a non-academic reader may have difficulty with the density of the prose.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/esther-allen/in-translation/|title=IN TRANSLATION: Translators on Their Work and What It Means|journal=Kirkus Reviews|place=New York City|year=2013|volume=81|issue=7|access-date=2025-06-13}} Heffington stated that a reader without an academic background can comprehend the book although it would be a "challenge". Daniel C. Villanueva of University of Nevada, Reno described the prose as "scholarly but accessible".
References
- {{cite journal|last=Villanueva|first=Daniel C.|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/547541/pdf|title=In Translation. Translators on Their Work and What it Means ed. by Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky (review)|journal=Rocky Mountain Review|publisher=Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association|date=March 2014|volume=68|issue=1|pages=63–65|doi=10.1353/rmr.2014.0011 |jstor=24372790}}
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Further reading
- {{cite magazine|last=Brock|first=Ollie|title=Art, craft or curating?|journal=Times literary supplement|year=2014|issue=5784|page=23}}
- {{cite magazine|last=Cormier|first=R.|title=In translation: translators on their work and what it means|magazine=Choice|year=2013|volume=51|issue=4|page=630}}
- {{cite journal|last=Galasso|first=Regina|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13556509.2016.1145845|title=Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky (eds): In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means: Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 2013, 264 pp, Paperback, $29.50, ISBN 978-0-231-15968-5|journal=Publishing Research Quarterly|year=2014|volume=30|issue=2|pages=260–261|doi=10.1007/s12109-014-9366-3 }}
- {{cite journal|last=Gladhart|first=Amalia|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07374836.2014.887366|title=In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means by Susan Bernofsky and Esther Allen|journal=Translation Review|year=2014|volume=88|issue=1|pages=82–85|doi=10.1080/07374836.2014.887366 }}
- {{cite journal|last=Lauth|first=Laura E.|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01434632.2014.914335|title=In translation: translators on their work and what it means|journal=Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development|year=2015|volume=36|issue=2|pages=215–216|doi=10.1080/01434632.2014.914335 }}
- {{cite journal|last=Rolls|first=Alistair|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13556509.2016.1145845|title=Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky, In translation: translators on their work and what it means|journal=Translator|place=Manchester, England|year=2016|volume=22|issue=2|pages=262–265|doi=10.1080/13556509.2016.1145845 }}
External links
- [http://estherallen.com/projects/in-translation/ In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means] - Esther Allen official website
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/alle15968 In Translation] - JSTOR