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The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction
To most of us, subversion means political subversion, but The Subversive Scribe is about collaboration not with an enemy, but with texts and between writers. Though Suzanne Jill Levine is the translator of some of the most inventive Latin American authors of the twentieth century including Julio Cortazar, G. Cabrera Infante, Manuel Puig, and Severo Sarduy each of whom were...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
October 6th 2009
by Dalkey Archive Press
(first published September 1st 1991)
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Jill's an amazing translator, and is equally amazing at describing the complicated choices that go into making a great translation. This collection of essays mainly focuses on three authors she worked with--Severo Sarduy, G. Cabrera Infante, and Manuel Puig--examining title choices (how Puig's "Painted Lips" became "Heartbreak Tango"), the "untranslatable" (puns! see everything GCI ever wrote), and the nature of closelaboration and the subversive, creative acts that...more
Jill Levine has written an unique account of the linguistic, cultural and creative acrobatics a translator performs. Many of the authors she has translated are known for their experiential (to avoid 'experimental', a word G. Cabrera Infante detests) post-modern prose, which makes her work of retaining the original content in an Anglo-American context a challenge. Considering the United States' difficult and exploitative historical relationship with Latin America, English is a fraught languge, re...more
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