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Miscellaneous Beyond Words: Translating the World. Susan Ouriou, ed. Banff, Alberta. Banff Centre Press. 2010. 175 pages. Can$21.95. isbn 978-1-894773-38-6
Beyond Words: Translating the World is a collection of twenty-one short, mostly informal essays, thoughts on translation by a kaleidoscope of translators who have participated at various times in the Banff Literary Translation Centre's Summer Residence Program. It is stimulating to confront in a short space how twenty-one translators with different approaches and attitudes face twenty-one different problems of translation in as many different ways. How does translating make us think about language? What can translators do, caught in the gaps between two languages? How does each individual text determine its translation? What about translating from a major language into an indigenous language? What is involved in translating...