the interlingual zoo

translations etc., maintained by martin aitken

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Dictionaries. Never use 'em myself.

Posted by Martin Aitken at 1:14 PM

Martin Aitken: This is a repository, a zoo for interlingual metarepresentations and stuff about them. It’s a drawer to put things in – and a place for snatches of translation to make themselves useful, even if they are only limbs, non-vital organs, or fragments of DNA. Whatever their biological status, they are all protected by copyright, so please treat them accordingly and drop me a line here if there’s anything you want to know.

Three Percent - Article

"For Isabel: A Mandala" by Antonio Tabucchi [Why This Book Should Win] - *This entry in the Why This Book Should Win series is from BTBA judge Jeremy Keng.* *For Isabel: A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi, translated from the It...
5 years ago
Absinthe Minded

Absinthe moves to Ann Arbor! - The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce it will assume editorial leadership of *Absinthe*, a literary...
9 years ago
Calque

"Blinding Moment" by Gert Jonke, translated by Vincent Kling; reviewed by Hans Gabriel - New literary translations inevitably make several implicit assumptions. Aside from the artistic value, or at least the uniqueness or originality, of the o...
14 years ago

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