Borges's Creative Infidelities

In this engaging study of Borges’s acts of translations of Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner, Leah Leone Anderson ably shows how translation can enact multifocal dialogues between author, text, and translator. Borges’s translations are imaginative interpretations of the base text that waver between creative infidelities and attempted hyperfidelity. Just as Borges attempted to expand the possibilities of Spanish literature by bringing into it translations of Modernist writers, he also expands the possibilities of Modernism through his translational practice. With Borges, translation is the sincerest form of flattery. * Samuel Slote, Professor in English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * This book foregrounds translation studies as an instrument to better understand the variations and cultural and political intentions of Borges's work as a translator. Leah Leone Anderson’s focus on issues of gender in translation open our eyes to Borges's curious manipulations of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner into Spanish. An excellent read! And a potential model for exploring aspects of gender in any translation. * Luise von Flotow, Professor of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa, Canada * Sparkling, original, insightful, Borges's Creative Infidelities shows how Borges's work as a translator is central to his creative practice. Through line-by-line comparisons of long form texts, Leone Anderson reveals how makes the chosen texts new. Undoubtedly the most important study to date of Borges and translation. * Daniel E. Balderston, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, USA *