Translation and Violence

Tiphaine Samoyault is director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. An author, translator, and columnist for Le Monde, she has published fiction as well as literary essays, and her books include Barthes: A Biography. Translation and Violence received the Anna de Noailles Prize from the Académie Française. Alexander Hertich is professor of French at Bradley University. His translations include René Belletto's Dying, a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, as well as works by Simone de Beauvoir, Étienne Balibar, and Christian Gailly.