The Way by Lydia’s (I) Réflexions sur la traduction de Lydia Davis

Comparing the versions by Moncrieff/Kilmartin (1981) and L. Davis (2002) raises legal questions related to literary translations (p. 70). Moreover, it leads to reflections on the periodical retranslation of classics (p. 73) in the wake of Venuti, Berman, and Brooks. Next, the stylistic choices of Davis, a novelist and short-story writer, reveal interferences – relations of symbiosis or “secret fecundation” (Bonnefoy) – between the translated œuvre and the poetic œuvre (p. 78).