The Unseen Book Club

Episode 18.1 Translating Marx’s Capital into Spanish

November 19, 2022 The Unseen Book Club Episode 18
The Unseen Book Club
Episode 18.1 Translating Marx’s Capital into Spanish
Show Notes

In episode 18, we talked about Raquel Salas Rivera’s use of key lines from Marx’s Capital in Lo Terciario/The Tertiary. Later, Max did some research and wrote more about the Spanish translation/critical edition of Capital that Salas Rivera quotes (and re-translates) in his poems, a collaborative work by Pedro Scarón and Siglo XXI Editores Argentina in the 1970s. Here, Max reads his short essay about that effort and translation in general as a political intervention in Latin American communism of the 1960s and 70s. 


Download the essay here