{"product_id":"9782365680127","title":"Against Translation","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.","brand":"JBE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65526418964829,"sku":null,"price":29.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9782365680127_14759173-9248-4bef-bb58-bf636bd27f4e.jpg?v=1788944454","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9782365680127","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}