Translating Holocaust Literature

Name: Translating Holocaust Literature
Brand: Brill Deutschland GmbH
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Written by Gaetan Pégny, Stephanie Munyard, Bettina Stumm, Rosa Marta Gómez Pato, Alan Turnbull, Bastian Reinert, Alana Fetcher, Anna Nunan, Tara Bergin, Rita Horvath and Peter Arnds

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In his testimony on his survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi said “our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man”. If language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated? The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust – whether as fiction, memoir, testimony – a phenomenon the current study examines. While there is a spate of literature about the impossibility to represent the Holocaust , not much has been written on the links between translation in its specific linguistic sense, translation studies, and the Holocaust, a niche this volume aims to fill.

ISBN-13: 9783847105015
Publisher: V&R unipress
Imprint: Brill Deutschland GmbH
Publication date: 18 November 2015
Format: Hardback
Pages: 156
Dimensions: 237 x 160 mm
Illustrations: mit 7 Abbildungen
Language: English