What is your favorite word in any language? Which word do you find most difficult to translate?
mda.
I don’t translate words, but works, authors, “the whole surround.”
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Sean Cotter answers our Proust Questionnaire
"Translators should pay better attention than any other reader, and the translator should be at least as creative as the original author."
Asymptote at AWP
If you're going to AWP, drop by and say hi. Pssst...if you are a past contributor, we've got a surprise for you!
Attention literature lovers: the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is holding its Annual Conference and Bookfair this year in Seattle, Washington, and your favorite literature journal Asymptote will make its first AWP appearance!
If you could have been born in a culture other than your own, which would you have chosen? Why?
By no means can I think about it! Never! READ MORE…
Who is your favorite fictional character of all time?
Seriously? That’s not fair, is it? This questionnaire is hard. Although now that I think about it: Death. I’ve never met a portrayal of Death that wasn’t incredible.
Who is your favorite fictional character of all time?
Too hard a question as it would require me to remember all the books I’ve read.
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Who is your favorite fictional character of all time?
Arthur from The Once and Future King by T H White.
Ladies and gents, let us introduce Asymptote Blog’s newest regular feature: a Proust (or should we say Lydia Davis?) questionnaire for translators! First up, French translator extraordinaire Edward Gauvin, whose newest translation, The Conductor and Other Tales by Jean Ferry– French Pataphysician, Surrealist, fantasist, and “borderline” Oulipian–is just out from Wakefield Press.
Who is your favorite fictional character of all time?
Borges.