Crossbars of the Universe
Guillevic and the Physics of Translation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9612985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Esther Allen (Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, corresponding author), Brian Nelson (0000-0001-9981-5813, Baruch College) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-48 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of French Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9468 • E-ISSN: 2046-2913 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/ajfs.2020.06 |
| OpenAlex | W3014994162 |
| Language | EN |
The French poet and translator Eugène Guillevic (1907-1997) once said that translation was impossible, though “human beings have only succeeded in achieving the impossible ... and failed to accomplish the possible”. The Guillevic scholar and translator Monique Chefdor locates a kind of physics in his poetry, an almost scientific inquiry into universal properties of human being in relation to matter itself, prehistory, and interstellar and subatomic space. The elemental, almost ahistorical self that Guillevic’s poetry proposes may offer a way out of the outdated conceptual binary of “domestication” vs. “foreignization” that has persistently dogged translation studies
Astronomy · Parallel universe · Physics · Quantum mechanics · Theoretical physics · Translation (biology · Universe · Classical Philosophy and Thought
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |