Event time:
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 5:00pm
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle 136
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
Event description:
HOW DO TRANSLATORS BRING TO ENGLISH-LANGUAGE READERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY.
ANDRÉ BAZIN’S CLASSICAL STYLE, EXTENDED METAPHORS, AND INEFFABLE
ELAN? IN THE MIDST OF TRANSLATING 120 OF HIS 2700 PIECES— MAGISTERIAL
ESSAYS ON CINEMA AS WELL AS REVIEWS OF FORGOTTEN MOVIES—SHOULD
“FIDELITY TO THE LETTER OR TO THE SPIRIT” BE EMPHASIZED, AS HE ASKED
ABOUT ADAPTATION? DEBATING A FEW CHALLENGING INSTANCES, WHILE
LOOKING AT OTHER EXTANT TRANSLATIONS, THIS ROUNDTABLE WILL SCRUTINIZE
TRANSLATION AS IT CONVERGES WITH THE MODE OF THE ESSAY AND THE GENIUS
OF BAZIN’S WRITING.