Lydia Davis’s Proust: The Writer as Translator, the Translator as Writer

by Helane Levine-Keating “When a foreign classic is retranslated, furthermore, we expect the translator to do something new to justify yet another version. And in raising the bar we might also expect the translator to be capable of describing this newness.” – Lawrence Venuti Lydia Davis, 2013 winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Photo…