Where There’s Love, There’s Hate by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo

Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo

Where There’s Love, There’s Hate 

by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo

Back in July, I read a few books to tie in with Richard and Stu’s Spanish Lit Month. All well and good except I ended up with several other books on my shopping list on the back of other bloggers’ reviews. Where There’s Love, There’s Hate was near the top of that list thanks to Grant’s review, and when I spotted it in the new Foyles, I couldn’t resist.

Many Voices: A Life in Translation

 

Many Voices: A Life in Translation

By Suzanne Jill Levine

Suzanne Jill Levine reflects upon her lifetime experience of translation, from childhood to present.

July 1, 2013

Published in Writing about Translation

“When we first learn to speak as children, we are learning to translate.”—Octavio Paz

One of the first authors I translated, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, said that I had “too much ego” to be a translator. I took the statement as a compliment even though I still don’t know if it’s true.  What I do know is that author and translator both need to be writers. To begin at the beginning: I read somewhere:

[T]he greatest human yearning is to recover the sense of belonging and possibility that attaches to childhood, that ghostly sensation of how it felt when life was most promising, simpler but more mysterious, at a time when things were vivid because they were first impressions. It is the memory of expectation that lies at the bottom of all our lives. That is what I love, what I am forever seeking.