Jascha Hoffman

Some novelists refuse every translator but themselves. Some see their work travel through a chain of languages to reach its public. Others find themselves translating the work of their own translator. In the October issue of The Believer, in a chart inspired by the work of Adam Thirlwell and designed by the incomparable Alvaro Villanueva, I map out some of the most vexing moments in the history of literary translation. [pdf]

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A number of Guatemalan authors have imagined exiles returning to confront the bloody past. Horacio Castellanos Moya, a Salvadoran journalist who now lives in Pittsburgh, tells a narrower story in his intemperate seventh novel Senselessness... [pdf]
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