CROSSING BORDERS

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Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation gathers together thirteen stories and five essays that explore the compromises, misunderstandings, tr aumas, and reconciliations we act out and embody through the art of translation. In Joyce Carol Oates's story ''The Translation,'' a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis's ''French Lesson I: Le Meurtre,'' what begins as a lesson in beginner's French takes a sinister turn. In the essay ''On Translating and Being Translated,'' Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator. Show more