The volume is a collection of contributions to the theory of literary translation based on the phenomenological method.
Literary translation compares some of the most important contemporary theories on the subject.
The author-translator relationship. Some considerations and an example analyses the relationship between Gide and Rilke, both translators and authors. Translation and ambiguity analyses the problem of translating ambiguity regarded as an aesthetic category. Translation and tradition puts the emphasis on the relationship between translation and tradition as a favourite field for the dialectical game between preservation and innovation. All these contributions tend to give a specific recognition and position to the problem of literary translation within the wider field of translation practice.