Contents
Preface
Part I: Meeting The “I”
On Self-Translation
Part II: Meditations
Alphabetizing
As It Were
Parable of Don Quixote
Finger Snapping
The Tenure Code
Transadaptation
Ellipses and I
On Clarity
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Part III: Beyond Words
On Being Misunderstood
Part I: The Lecture
Part II: The Response
Against Representation
The Monkey Grammarian
Midrash on Truth
Don Quixote in Schlemieland
Dying in Hebrew
The Reading Life of Ricardo Piglia
Adiós, Chespirito
Part IV: On Fútbol
“Sudden Death”
Van Persie’s Goal
Box of Resonance
Part V: Language And Politics
Trump and the Wall
Why Doesn’t English Have an Academy?
Shakespeare in Prison
The Spanish Language in Latin America Since Independence
Castellano, Español, or Españoles?
Andrés Bello: The Philologist’s Task
Toward a Modern Tongue
The Embattled Real Academia Española: The Question of Regionalisms
The Power of Variety
Against “Diversity”
Rolling One’s R’s
Part VI: Conversations
The Poet’s Alchemy (with Richard Wilbur)
On Silence (with Charles Hatfield)
Translating Cervantes (with Diana de Armas Wilson)
The Color of Existence (with Ryan Mihaly)
The Downpour of Inspiration (with Asymptote)
The Translingual Sensibility (with Steven G. Kellman)
Rescuing the Classics (with Lydia Davis)
Part VII: Onto Spanglish
Un Walker En Nuyol
[1] From El Gueto
[2] To the Subway
[3] The Big Wong
[4] Is this Queens?
[5] Carpe Diem
Hamlet, Acto 2, Scene Dos [fragment] and Acto 3, Scene Uno
Acto 2, Scene Dos [Fragment]
Acto 3, Scene Uno
El Little Príncipe, Chapters I–IV
Don Quixote, Parte Ii, Chapter 72
Spanglish and The Royal Academy
About the Author
Index