Photograph of the shepherd René Alcazar taken by Patrick Fabre in 2007 in the Gorges du Bachelard, France.
Published in 2017 by the Feminist Press
at the City University of New York
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406
New York, NY 10016
First Feminist Press edition 2017
Copyright © 2012 by Éditions Calligrammes
Translation copyright © 2017 by Ros Schwartz
Foreword copyright © 2017 by Lauren Elkin
Traduire comme transhumer was originally published in France by Éditions Calligrammes in 2012.
All rights reserved.
This work received the French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation. French Voices is a program created and funded by the French Embassy in the United States and FACE (French American Cultural Exchange). French Voices Logo designed by Serge Bloch.
This book was made possible thanks to a grant from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
No part of this book may be reproduced, used, or stored in any information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
Ros Schwartz would like to thank Natasha Lehrer for her sensitive and insightful editing and for her deep commitment to this project.
First printing November 2017
Cover and text design by Drew Stevens
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gansel, Mireille, author. | Schwartz, Ros, translator.
Title: Translation as transhumance / Mireille Gansel; translated by Ros Schwartz.
Other titles: Traduction en transhumance. English
Description: New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017012003 (print) | LCCN 2017038296 (ebook) | ISBN 9781936932085 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Translating and interpreting. | Gansel, Mireille--Translations into English. | BISAC: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
Classification: LCC P306 (ebook) | LCC P306 .G27413 2017 (print) | DDC 418/.02--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017012003
To Jean Halpérin Z”L a man of peace and light
Native language is not a set of grammar rules and regulations, it is the child’s spiritual nourishment.
—Janusz Korczak
CONTENTS
THE FRUITS OF THE ELDERBERRY TREE
TWO LINES FOR EACH LINE OF VERSE