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