Is That A Fish In Your Ear? Translation And The Meaning Of Everything

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David Bellos is Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, where he is also Professor of French and Comparative Literature. He is the author ofIs That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything. A book that doesn’t tell you how to translate but to understand what translation does.

He addresses the following questions:

What is translation? What can we learn from transla...