I really loved listening to Esther Allen's lecture and having it be in person definitely made a difference.
As someone who hasn't heard much at all about translation, it was honestly really jarring just to glimpse the extent of the work she had to do to under his works at that level -- it seems like just an unimaginable level of literary analysis, and her discussion of only a few of the connections she had to make (like with the title) opened up just how many completely non-intuitive connections she had to piece together to produce those translations. I don't have much to draw from this other than that it was just incredibly impressive to see how many of those nuances she picked out in someone else's writing -- If I had thought about it I would have asked her how long it took/at what point in the process of her translations she was able to pick out the key thing that unlocked the work for her to be able to preserve so much nuance. I also wondered if there were any she felt like she got to create herself while she was doing the translation/what questions she had that went unanswered by the text
Jeremy Tiang: It was interesting to see his take on the same “translation is a bridge” trope that All the Violence It May Carry on its Back: A Conversation about Diversity and Literary Translation addresses, with the quote “I grew up bilingual and can't relate when people say translation is a bridge. How can it be, when for me both languages reside in the same place?” -- His article followed a really interesting format with the little asterisks separating the paragraphs, and I liked that he didn't just straight out answer the questions he posed, he took the step to shift the terrain to a much better form of question
The plays were great also, I don't have much to say there .
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