Cases Quote by John Felstiner

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing… It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act…

— Harry Mathews

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.”

— Corinne McKay

“Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language.…

— Suman Pokhrel

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really,…

— Ken Liu

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

— Benjamin Jowett

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing…

— Lawrence Venuti

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart

“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of the work…

— Edith Grossman

General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in…

— Lawrence Venuti