What famous novels in the past 50 years have the characters speaking in a particular regional (English language) dialect? [more inside]
posted by thesailor on Jun 21, 2011 - 27 answers

I'm up for tackling some big all-time classics, especially Don Quixote and War and Peace, and I'm wondering which translations to get. [more inside]
posted by Rinku on Apr 29, 2011 - 19 answers

Bookish mystery: Help me identify the translation of Crime and Punishment I was reading. [more inside]
posted by xiaolongbao on Apr 7, 2010 - 5 answers

Trying to identify a children's book I read in Hebrew, but which was translated from a European language, about gangs of boys who hoard rubber caulking and battle it out with other gangs. One of the boys dies by the end.
posted by limon on Jan 11, 2010 - 3 answers

What's the best translation (or, rather, which might you recommend) of Proust's masterwork In Search of Lost Time? [more inside]
posted by jokeefe on Dec 28, 2009 - 15 answers

Who are the best translators (living or dead) of English-language poetry into Spanish, and what are the best anthologies of English-language poetry translated into Spanish? [more inside]
posted by Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh on May 25, 2009 - 0 answers

Literary Filter: Which English version/translation of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" should I read for fun? [more inside]
posted by DetonatedManiac on Apr 20, 2009 - 8 answers

Looking for a good english translation of the essay Les portes de l’opium by Marcel Schwob.
posted by jammy on Jan 11, 2009 - 2 answers

I'm looking for some particularly good translations (into English) of world literature, from *any* place, period, or genre. [more inside]
posted by scarylarry on Aug 9, 2008 - 29 answers

What are some great national literatures without a substantial presence in English translation? Who/what are their key authors/works? [more inside]
posted by Cucurbit on May 28, 2008 - 6 answers

Is there a Definitive English translation of Don Quixote? [more inside]
posted by Devils Rancher on Apr 14, 2008 - 13 answers

Where can I read Michel Houellebecq's notorious September 2001 Lire interview in English? [more inside]
posted by Cucurbit on Mar 17, 2008 - 2 answers

Any expert translators in the house? What is the best way to go about translating works of published fiction from Bulgarian into English? Any resources or answers regarding the practical elements of translation in general, or info for obtaining the legal rights to have any translated works published...? More fun inside! [more inside]
posted by Detuned Radio on Feb 12, 2008 - 7 answers

I am interested in the mimetic and narrative capacities of artefacts, how cultural remnants transmit information through time and how meaning is translated once an artefact is re-appropriated or examined from a new perspective. I have several avenues of study at the moment (a list in extended explanation), but would like some more ideas. Areas of critical theory, linguistics, evolutionary psychology and poetics are all relevant. [more inside]
posted by 0bvious on Jan 27, 2008 - 12 answers

Has Finnegans Wake ever been translated? How?
posted by dead_ on Oct 20, 2006 - 36 answers