Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is November sixth, twenty twenty four, and my guest is author, poet, and translator Robert Chandler. Our topic for today is the art of translation, and in particular His translations of the work of Silly Grossman.

This is a follow up to our recent conversation with Tyler Cowan on Grossman's masterpiece Life and Fate. Robert, welcome to Econ Talk. Hello, glad to be speaking to you. I'm gonna start with just the logistics of a project. Like translating a

nearly nine hundred page book and you've done it twice. uh for Grossman both his work Stalingrad And life and fate. How do you prepare for a project like that? What research do you do, if any

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