
Against Translation
by Kenneth Goldsmith
Title:
Against Translation
Author:
Kenneth Goldsmith
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
Jean Boite editions
ISBN-13:
9782365680127
EAN:
9782365680127
Publication Date:
01/01/2016
Classifications:
Literature: history and criticism
Weight (g):
516
Dimensions (mm):
106 x 169 x 34
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Against Translation is a text by American poet Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) published in eight volumes--English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Arabic. The author discusses the impasses and shortcomings of translation and the virtues of an unapologetic linguistic “displacement. ” “Translation is the ultimate humanist gesture,” he states. “Polite and reasonable, it is an overly cautious bridge builder . in the end, it always fails, for the discourse it sets forth is inevitably off-register. ” Displacement, by contrast, never explains itself.













