Tag Archives: Brazilian literature
Who Wrote This English? Translation, Attribution, and the Limits of Literary Reviewing
We are no longer dealing only with the old problem of the invisible translator; sometimes the translator is perfectly visible. The name is on the cover, in the bibliographical information and beneath the title of the review; what disappears is something subtler: the translator’s relation to the qualities criticism then proceeds to judge. If a reviewer calls the English supple or funny, or admires its lyricism, who has produced those effects?
It’s a Wonderful Death: Hilda Hilst’s “Of Death. Minimal Odes,” translated from Portuguese by Laura Cesarco Eglin
By Alessandro Mondelli In Of Death. Minimal Odes, Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst imagines death not only as the absence of life or as life’s negation, but also as a productive force that imbues life with a wide yet nuanced palette of affects. Hilst, recognized in Brazil as a seminal writer, poet, and playwright of twentieth-century […]