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Short description: If language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated? Main description: In his testimony on his survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi said “our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man”. If language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated? The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust – whether as fiction, memoir, testimony – a phenomenon the current study examines. While there is a spate of literature about the impossibility to represent the Holocaust, not much has been written on the links between translation in its specific linguistic sense, translation studies, and the Holocaust, a niche this volume aims to fill.; Description for press or other media: This book analyses the complexities involved in translating literature about the Holocaust. It includes essays about Italian, German, French, Hungarian, and Spanish Holocaust literature.; Promotional text: The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust – whether as fiction, memoir, testimony – a phenomenon the current study examines. While there is a spate of literature about the impossibility to represent the Holocaust, not much has been written on the links between translation in its specific linguistic sense, translation studies, and the Holocaust, a niche this volume aims to fill.; Biographical note: Prof. Dr. Peter Arnds is the Director of Comparative Literature and Literary Translation at Trinity College Dublin.
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