This volume explores the importance of scholarly and literary communities, the challenges of translation and difference, and the search for the ineffable in art. It is a collection of interviews, translations, essays and tributes in honor of the translator and scholar Burton Pike.
Peter Constantine is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Connecticut.
Robert Cowan is Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.
Henry N. Gifford is a freelance copy editor and writer.
Genese Grill is a Musil scholar, translator, essayist, and former student of Burton Pike.
James Keller is Adjunct Assistant Professor of German at Pasadena City College in California, a translator, and former student of Burton Pike.