The Philosophy of Translation begins with an anecdote. Damion Searls, at this point a young man pondering a career in languages, asks Edith Grossman to go ...

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 ...

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 ...

Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life. ... In The Philosophy of Translation, Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of ...