Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Going fictional! Translators and interpreters in literature and film 1
4. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to … 27
5. Episode I. Entering theoretical territories
6. The power of fiction as theory 37
7. Language, essence, and silence 51
8. Walter Benjamin revisited 69
9. Of dragons and translators: Foreignness as a principle of life 87
10. Taking care of the stars 103
11. Reaching a dead-end – and then? 113
12. Episode II. Travelling through sociocultural space
13. From La dolce vita to La vita agra 127
14. From a faltering bystander to a spiritual leader 141
15. Interpreting Daniel Stein 157
16. Fictional translators in Québec novels 177
17. Pseudotranslations in 18th century France 189
18. Episode III. Experiencing agency and action
19. On the (in)fidelity of (fictional) interpreters 205
20. Interpreting conflict 221
21. Truth in translation 233
22. Wittnessing, remembering, translating 247
23. Translating the past, negotiating the self 261
24. The apocalyptical interpreter and the end of Europe 271
25. Episode IV. Carrying function into effect
26. Willa Muir 287
27. Translation as a source of humor 299
28. Neither is a translator, unless they’re transauthers 315
29. Magical mediation 329
30. Future imperfect 345
31. Fiction as a catalyst 363
32. Name index 369
33. Subject index 371