Ce qui est vraiment en jeu dans le débat au sujet des traduct(eur)(rice)s d’Amanda Gorman Traduit de l’anglais par Diniz Galhos La traduction est le domaine du paradoxe. L’un de ses paradoxes centraux, sensible dans l’opinion publique mais qui intéresse également les théoriciens de la traduction, est l’idée selon laquelle…

What follows is an English translation of Janice Deul’s opinion piece (in Dutch) published by De Volkskrant (25 February 2021), carried out with her permission. The article prompted widespread debate; the interpretations of many of the subsequent contributors to this debate raise questions about their engagement with the article itself…

What the debate about Amanda Gorman’s translators is really about Translation is the territory of paradox. One of the central paradoxes, and one which runs through popular views of translation as much as it has occupied translation theorists, is the notion that a good translation is one where the reader…