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Gansel considers estrangement as her price paid for the priviledge of moving between tongues, and muses on how translation becomes an exercise of empathy among those in exile. `In this memoir of a translator's adventures, Mireille Gansel shows us what it means to enter another language through its culture, and to enter the life of another culture through its language. A sensitive and insightful book, which illuminates the difficult, and often underestimated task of translation - and the role of literature in making for a more interconnected and humane world.' - Eva Hoffman, author of 'Lost in Translation: A Life in A New Language'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49507416080657,"sku":"GOR009037284","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51834013319441,"sku":"GOR009426799","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0993009336.jpg?v=1751438495"},{"product_id":"translation-as-transhumance-book-mireille-gansel-9780993009372","title":"Translation as Transhumance","description":"Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything-including their native languages-to Nazi Germany. 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Gansel opens this meditative volume of 53 prose poems with an epigraph from Gaston Bachelard: 'against all odds, the house invites us to say: I will be a citizen of the world despite the world.' In these war-torn days of refugees fleeing to Europe, Gansel strives to describe what we have in common, creating a crossroads of people, places, and languages she has loved. For Gansel, a poet rebuilding her 'soul house,' every word is a building block. At the same time that she welcomes the stranger to her lost house, poetry is her weapon -- 'these migrant poems from all languages, these smuggled words that no border can stop' -- with which to fight persecution and exile.  ||  \"Mireille Gansel's SOUL HOUSE, in Joan Seliger Sidney's beautiful translation, is something to behold: a book of aftermaths, of ghost-breath in scraps of tales almost told, a post-script, a pact 'beyond words and borders,' it reads like a notation on silence that occurs after crisis. And, at the same time: it is remarkably lucid, reminding one of Darwish's intriguing claim that it is clarity, clarity, clarity, which is our final mystery. Here it is, that mystery: a nomadic house, 'the time between two trains to become a little human,' words almost escaping your fingers. A very beautiful, special book.\" --ILYA KAMINSKY  ||  \"Mireille Gansel's book is what I have so often called for: truly nomadic writing, 'like a pact behind words and borders,' as she puts it. Only a seasoned writer\/translator of Gansel's stature can achieve such excellence in doing what I have called the poet's job, namely to 'pick up everything that shines \/ throw out the gold \/ keep the light.' \"  --PIERRE JORIS  ||  Translation Studies. Women's Studies. French Literature. Jewish Studies. Poetry. 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