L'épreuve de l'étranger. Culture et traduction dans l'Allemagne romantique: Herder, Goethe, Schlegel, Novalis, Humboldt, Schleiermacher, Hölderlin. is a book by Antoine Berman, published in 1984.L'épreuve de l'étranger, recension par Nicole Mallet, dans : TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction, vol. 8, n° 2, 1995, p. 275-279.
The work has had significant influence among intellectuals.Translation as a Phantom Limb In their book Traduire Freud, André Bourguignon, Pierre Cotet, Jean Laplanche and François Robert reference Berman's book in the context of a discussion of scientific and technical guidance for translation. They argue that, during the age of Romanticism, German literary figures such as Herder, Goethe, Schlegel, Novalis, Hölderlin, Humboldt and Schleiermacher developed a "German theory" in translation, which consciously opposed the "French-style" approach to translation..
This book was translated into English by Stefan Heyvaert with the title The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
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