Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions, Fictional Translators invites readers to rethink the main clich-associated with translations. Rosemary Arrojo shines a light on the transformative character of the translator-s role and the relationships that can be established between originals and their reproductions, building her arguments on the basis of texts such as the following:
- Cort-r-s "Letter to a Young Lady in Paris"
- Walsh-s "Footnote"
- Wilde-s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Poe-s "The Oval Portrait"
- Borges-s "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," "Funes, His Memory," and "Death and the Compass"
- Kafka-s "The Burrow" and Kosztol-i-s Korn-Esti
- Saramago-s The History of the Siege of Lisbon and Babel-s "Guy de Maupassant"
- Scliar-s "Footnotes" and C
