Frontmatter -- Contents -- La Dernière Translation -- Preface -- The Fundamentals -- Why Literary Translation? -- The uniqueness of literary translation -- Getting started -- Preparing to translate -- Staying on track -- A day in the life of a literary translator -- Stages of translation -- Techniques of Translation -- Decisions at the outset -- What literary translators really translate -- The care and feeding of authors -- Style in translation -- Fiction and footnotes -- Some notes on translating poetry -- Other areas of literary translation -- Puns and word play -- Stalking the treacherous typo (Lapsus calami) -- The dilemma of dialect -- Special problems in literary translation -- Pitfalls and how to avoid them -- The all-important title -- Profanity, prurience, pornography -- The crucial role of revision -- Final steps -- Where to publish -- The Working Translator -- The translator's tools -- Workspace and work time -- Financial matters -- Contracts -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Appendix: Ethical questions in literary translation