Working with translators
Date
2008
Authors
Coetzee, J.
Editors
Lianeri, A.
Zajko, V.
Zajko, V.
Advisors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
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Book chapter
Citation
Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture, 2008 / Lianeri, A., Zajko, V. (ed./s), pp.407-421
Statement of Responsibility
J. M.Coetzee
Conference Name
Abstract
Exchanges between the novelist J. M. Coetzee and a number of his translators (including those into German, French, Dutch, and Serbian) illustrate some of the problems typical of literary translation. For instance, choosing among semantically equivalent terms that carry differing cultural connotations, or rendering sentences whose syntactic structure bears part of the semantic load.