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Peter Handke’s “That Beautiful ‘And so on'” — Part Two

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Scott Abbott

II   A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia Translating Peter Handke’s A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia into English, I called Žarko to ask about the phrase: “Do we need a new Gavrilo Princip?” What kind … Continue reading →

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My Translation of Peter Handke’s Justice for Serbia

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Scott Abbott

I’ll admit from that start that my books have never sold well. Lyn and I just received our annual royalty checks from Texas A&M University Press for our book about the meanings of barbed wire: The Perfect Fence. $36 each. Sam and … Continue reading →

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Translation

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Scott Abbott

Emily Wilson’s review of Mark Polizzotti’s Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto (in the current edition of the NYRB) makes me think about my own work as a translator. Should a translation, as Walter Benjamin argued, “be powerfully affected … Continue reading →

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