World Literatures 178 - Naughty Fictional Translators

Same as SPN 178. This courses focuses on fictional portraits of iconoclastic translators and/or interpreters. The first two months are devoted to a (relatively) "slow reading" of DonQuijote as a pioneer text in terms of attributing a central creative role to a fictional translator. The third month is devoted to international films and short-stories (largely, but not exclusively, from the Spanish-speaking world, which has experienced a remarkable upsurge of "transfictions" i.e. —fictions about translators — since the 90's).