Damion Searls - The Philosophy of Translation: Reading Like a Translator

Damion Searls has translated sixty books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch, including modern classics by Proust, Gide, and Nietzsche; Mann, Hesse, Walser, and Wittgenstein; Rilke, Jelinek, and Modiano; Victoria Kielland, Ariane Koch, and Nescio; and a dozen books by 2023 Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse. A Guggenheim, Cullman Center, and two-time NEA fellow, he edited Thoreau’s The Journal for NYRB Classics and is the author of The Inkblots: a history of the Rorschach test and the first biography of its creator. His latest books are The Philosophy of Translation and The Mariner’s Mirror, a poetry chapbook.