Jacqueline Feldman, an American girl in Paris, was lost. Five years in France—and nothing to show for them. But then, with the help of a few extremely close readings—of a story of ventriloquism and political violence, familial obligation and national horror, by the lauded poet Nathalie Quintane—she started feeling a little better… .
At once an artist’s book combining evidence of every stage of a highly personal translation process and a series of intense experiments in the composition of bilingual prose, ON YOUR FEET is an innovation in translation studies and in narrative. It is also a searching theorization of the politics of literature—for fans of Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator” and Emily in Paris, a chronicle of all that is lost and found again in translation.
ON YOUR FEET features stories by Quintane and Feldman as well as a scholarly work, in French, by Feldman. -Publisher
