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Translation Review issue 121 is now available.
By Translation Review Staff | April 2025
TR 121—the new issue of Translation Review—is now available online. TR 121 is a special issue dedicated to the work of Jewish German philosopher and translator Walter Benjamin to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of his 1923 essay “The Task of the Translator” [“Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers,” translated by Harry Zohn]. The issue, which is guest edited by American Norwegian scholar Stephen Dougherty and co-edited by Susan Erdmann, is based in large part on a symposium—dedicated to Benjamin’s iconic essay—that took place in 2023 at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. The articles in this issue explore Benjamin’s essay from a variety of interdisciplinary vantage points that attest to its ongoing importance more than one hundred years after its initial publication as the introduction to his translation of French poet Charles Baudelaire.
The cover art for this issue—a photographic portrait of Walter Benjamin—is attributed to sociologist, journalist, and photographer Gisèle Freund and is held in the Walter Benjamin Archive at the Akademie der Künste.
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