In The Philosophy of Translation, Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of the translator and of the writer. By just about any measure ...
The Philosophy of Translation begins with an anecdote. Damion Searls, at this point a young man pondering a career in ...
That’s a challenge Damion Searls faced as he wrote The Inkblots, the first biography of Rorschach. He chose to publish a few, as we are doing here. Regardless of the scientific debate ...
Damion Searls, an American translator who has rendered Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and the 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse into English, has spent a lifetime thinking about why translation became so ...
The latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated writers, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. Translated by Damion Searls.