Literature in Translation

Guest host Tom Overton discusses the legacy of writer and translator Anya Berger (1923-2018), and issues around literary translation with Esther Leslie, author of 'Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism', and writer, poet, editor and curator Jen Calleja, who is currently Translator in Residence at the British Library. WORKS REFERENCED Tom Overton on Anya Berger (Frieze) - https://frieze.com/article/life-margins / https://frieze.com/article/anya-berger-1923-2018 Name the Translator campaign - https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/name-the-translator Theodor W. Adorno SVETLANA ALEXEIVICH, Second-Hand Time (2013, trans. Bela Shayevich) - https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/from-second-hand-time-by-svetlana-alexievich-1/ Roland Barthes Charles Baudelaire WALTER BENJAMIN, The Storyteller (2016) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2101-the-storyteller WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Task of the Translator' (1923) WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) - https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm John Berger - poetry - https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=93 John Berger, 'Ways of Seeing' (TV series, 1972) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk KATE BRIGGS, This Little Art (2017) - http://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2018/1/18/kate-briggs-this-little-art AIMÉ CESAIRÉ - Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1939) - https://archipelagobooks.org/book/return-to-my-native-land/ HANS MAGNUS ENZENBERGER, Short Summer of Anarchy - https://libcom.org/history/brief-summer-anarchy-life-death-durruti-hans-magnus-enzensberger Sigmund Freud Stefan George - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_George Franz Hessel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel HOMER, The Odyssey (trans. Emily Wilson) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/the-odyssey-translated-emily-wilson-review Kleenex/LiLiPUT (Swiss post-punk band) / Marlene Marder ESTHER LESLIE, Walter Benjamin (2007) - https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/esther-leslie-walter-benjamin.pdf Helen Lowe-Porter (American translator) - http://www.freeburn.biz/the-curious-case-of-helen-lowe-porter/ Thomas Mann Herbert Marcuse Joachim Meyerhoff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Meyerhoff MARION POSCHMAN, Pine Islands (2017, trans. Jen Calleja) - http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/prj/lit/b17/en16515289.htm MARCEL PROUST, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) Gregory Rabassa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Rabassa Revolutionary History (journal) - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backissu.htm Spare Rib - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/28/british-library-spare-rib-feminist-magazine-online MICHELLE STEINBECK, My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water (2016, trans. Jen Calleja) TA First Translation Prize - https://societyofauthors.org/News/News/2018/January/TA-First-Translation-Prize-shortlist LEON TROTSKY, 1905 (1907, trans. Anya Bostock) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1907/1905/index.htm Tristan Tzara Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs (2008, trans. Esther Leslie) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/27/society PETER WEISS, The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975-81) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aesthetics_of_Resistance WIM WENDERS, The Pixels of Paul Cézanne (2018, trans. Jen Calleja) - https://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/6496/s/9780571336463-the-pixels-of-paul-c-zanne/category/182/ Stefan Zweig