Performing without a stage is a lively and comprehensive introduction to the art of literary translation for readers of global fiction and poetry who wonder what it takes to translate how the art of literary translation has changed over the centuries what problems translators face in bringing foreign works into english and how they go about solving these problems it is based on extensive reading on dozens of interviews with translators and on the authors years of experience editing . Pageperforming without a stage the art of literary translation by robert wechslerpdf 5 from wikisource jump to navigation jump to search this page has been proofread but needs to be validated have the opportunity either to improve on it or to try a different approach and while the translator is shouldering this responsibility and forcing literary works into forms they were never . Performing without a stage is a lively and comprehensive introduction to the art of literary translation for readers of foreign fiction and poetry who wonder what it takes to translate how the art of literary translation has changed over the centuries what problems translators face in bringing foreign works into english and how they go about solving these problems. Performing without a stage the art of literary translation by robert wechsler includes bibliographical references and index isbn 0 945774 38 9 cloth alk paper 1 translating and interpreting i title pn241w43 1998 41802 dc21 97 35268 cip