Table of Contents
Introduction 7
"Auslander" Michelle Herman 15
"The Translation" Joyce Carol Oates 51
"Crossing the Border"* Chana Bloch 77
"The Wizard of Khao-I-Dang" Sharon May 105
"The Difficulty of Translation" Lucy Ferriss 125
"On Translating and Being Translated,"* translated Zaia Alexander Primo Levi 141
"Sima Street," Bogdan Rakic Sverlana Velmar-Jancovic 147
"French Lesson I: Le Meurtre" Lydia Davis 157
"The Servile Path"* Michael Scammell 165
"The Task of This Translator" Todd Hasak-Lowy 187
"Asylum" Susan Daitch 215
"Translation and the Oulipo"* Harry Mathews 233
"The Translator" Norman Lavers 245
"The Perfect Word" Robin Hemlely 255
"In Love with Russian"* Laura Esther Wolfson 271
"The Translaor" Courtney Angela Brkic 281
"The Interrogation of the Prisoner Bung by Mister Hawkins and Sergeant Tree" David Huddle 295
"Her Native Tongue" Lynne Sharon Schwartz 307
Author Biographies 311
Acknowledgments 317