Transfiction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Going fictional! Translators and interpreters in literature and film: An introduction -- Translation on the move -- The translatorial eye of fiction -- The fictional eye of translation studies -- Directions of research -- Frames of reference for research -- Translation studies on the move -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- A Hitchhiker's Guide to... What to expect and where to start from -- Getting on track -- Pocket map -- Episode I. Entering theoretical territories -- The power of fiction as theory. Some exemplary lessons on translation from Borges's stories -- Oswald de Andrade and Borges: Between reverence and irreverence -- Translating European philosophy into Latin American fiction -- Borges's "Pierre Menard": Between fiction and theory -- The exemplarity of Borges's fiction as theory -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Language, essence, and silence. Fictional translators in Peter Kosminsky's The Promise -- Introduction -- The Promise: An overview -- Language, essence, and silence in The Promise -- The translator as author -- Translation, interrupted -- The translator who is not -- The language of silence -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Walter Benjamin revisited. A literary reading in Todd Hasak-Lowy's short story -- The task historicised -- The task assigned -- The task executed -- Conclusion: The task of This translator -- References -- Of dragons and translators: Foreignness as a principle of life -- Writing as an experience of foreignness -- Translating as a topic and motif in Yoko Tawada's works -- The translator as a dragon -- Translating and the mystery of the word -- Translator and author -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources.

Secondary sources -- Taking care of the stars. Interpreted interaction in Amadou Hampâté Bâ's L'étrange Destin De Wangrin -- Essai de conquête: The colonial context of Western Africa -- Capital(e) littéraire: Author & œuvre -- Les champs de lutte(s): The interpreter - entangled and intertwined -- À la recherche de Wangrin perdu: Interpreting between Bretton Woods and Timbuktu -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Reaching a dead-end - and then? Jacques Gélat's Le Traducteur and Le Traducteur amoureux -- Introduction -- Novels with fictional translators/interpreters - A typology -- Le Traducteur and Le Traducteur amoureux -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Episode II. Travelling through sociocultural space -- From La dolce vita to La vita agra. The image of the Italian literary translator -- Introduction -- The translator-intellectual's "Hard Life" in the metropolis -- The novel -- The film -- La Vita Agra 2.0 by Fulvio Sant -- Closing remarks -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- From a faltering bystander to a spiritual leader. Re-thinking the role of translators in Russia -- Introduction -- The art versus the artist -- From Autumn Marathon to Sincerely yours Shurik: Indecision or insincerity? -- Translator as spiritual leader -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Interpreting Daniel Stein. Or what happens when fictional translators get translated -- Introduction -- Defining postmodernism -- A postmodern classic? -- Postmodern or post-Soviet? -- The limits of pluralism -- Misreading Russia -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Fictional translators in Québec novels -- Translation and moral weakness -- A new tone -- Probing language through translation -- Translation as structure -- References.

Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Pseudotranslations in 18th century France -- The pseudotranslation - Term and concept -- Pseudotranslations - Alibi and tool -- Narrative characteristics of pseudotranslations -- Indicators for pseudotranslations -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Episode III. Experiencing agency and action -- On the (in)fidelity of (fictional) interpreters -- Introduction -- Professional conduct - Fidelity, impartiality and conflicting loyalties -- The fictional interpreter - His/her master's voice? -- Betraying the client to prevent foul play -- Siding with the underprivileged -- A most improbable case of manipulation -- A case of despicable manipulation -- A case of manipulation everyone will applaud -- Failing the client owing to lack of skills -- Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Interpreting conflict. Memories of an interpreter -- Introduction -- Autobiography or fiction -- Interpreters at war -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Truth in translation. Interpreters' subjectivity in the truth and reconciliation hearings -- Introduction -- Truth in translation: "Can we forgive the past to survive the future?" -- The interpreters: "You must not become involved!" -- The question of subjectivity: "Is the translator allowed to be a subject?" -- Back to forgiveness: "[It] must announce itself as impossibility itself" -- Final remarks -- References -- Witnessing, remembering, translating. Translation and translator figures -- Translation in Fugitive Pieces -- Translation in Everything is Illuminated -- Translation as an element of plot -- Translation as an element of language -- Translation as metaphor -- Mediation, remembering, witnessing -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources.

Translating the past, negotiating the self. Discursive resistance -- Discourse and the individual: Subject positions -- Discourse and cultures: Ideologies -- Discourse and translation: Identities -- References -- The apocalyptical interpreter and the end of Europe. Alain Fleischer's Prolongations -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Episode IV. Carrying function into effect -- Willa Muir: The "factional" translator How Muir self-fictionalized her translations of Kafka's work -- From Mrs. Muir to Mrs. Muttoe -- Translator fictions -- Factionalization -- From Kafka to Garta -- References -- Translation as a source of humor -- Introduction -- Book and film -- Strategies of humor -- Alex's "translated language" -- Alex's "translator persona" -- Everything is translation -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Neither is a translator, unless they're transauthers -- Neither: A translator -- Weder noch - eine Übersetzerin? -- Unless: A transauther or two -- Coming and going: Transauth_ring -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Magical mediation. The role of translation and interpreting in the narrative world of Harry Potter -- Introduction -- The linguistic features of the Potterverse: Wizarding talk vs. Muggle English -- Gendered approaches to translation in the Potterverse -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Future imperfect. Translation and translators in science-fiction novels and films -- Introduction: Plausible future for translators -- Translation today: Two trends -- Translation tomorrow -- Translation on Earth -- Interplanetary communication -- Spoken Galactic Basic and its advantages -- Magic tools -- Aliens most alien -- Translator - An endangered species -- No job openings for translators -- Experts in dead languages -- Enter the translatress.

Extraterrestrial Malinches -- The last human translator -- A robot in a shining armor -- Conclusions -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Fiction as a catalyst. Some afterthoughts -- Connecting flights -- Vaulting the turnstile -- Boarding -- References -- Subject index.