La Derniere Translation, by Millor Fernandes
Preface
The Fundamentals
Why Literary Translation?
"Night Drive," by Rubem Fonseca
The uniqueness of literary translation
An ephemeral art
Getting started
How many languages?
Submissions: a primer
Coping with bad reviews
Preparing to translate
Down to work
Permissions
Staying on track
A day in the life of a literary translator
Stages of translation
Techniques of Translation
Decisions at the outset
Fluency and transparency
The author-translator-reader triangle
Targeteersandsourcerers
Resistance
Word by word or thought by thought?
Adaptation or translation?
Register and tone
Using tone in translation
What literary translators really translate
When not to translate cultural cues
The care and feeding of authors
The dubious project
Face time with the author
The hijacked author
Style in translation
Fiction and footnotes
Footnotes
Interpolation
Omission
Some notes on translating poetry
To rhyme or not to rhyme?
Translating humorous verse
Other areas of literary translation
Translating non-fiction
Translating for the theater
Translating childrens literature
Puns and word play.
Stalking the treacherous typo (Lapsus calami)
The dilemma of dialect
Special problems in literary translation
English before there was English
English with a restricted vocabulary: a case study
Working with subtext
Indirect translation
Pitfalls and how to avoid them
Errors of frequency
Landminewords: hidden traps in translating common vocabulary
Change of address: problems of the English vocative
The all-important title
Title quest: a case study
Profanity, prurience, pornography
Pornography orpornography?
The crucial role of revision
How many drafts?
Final steps
Proofreading
Grammar checkers
Verifying against the source language
Where to publish
Periodicals
Commercial presses
Small presses
Academic presses
A word on self-publishing
The Working Translator
The translators tools
References
How to use dictionaries for translation
Electronic vs. printed dictionaries
Dictionaries on the Internet
Workspace and work time
Financial matters
Taxes
Setting a price
Other translation-related sources of income
Contracts
What to include
The question
When contracts arent honored
A final word on literary translation
Bibliography
Glossary
Appendix: Ethical questions in literary translation
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