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In a cramped, candle-lit study in 1980s Paris, a young translator named Elias sat buried under a mountain of German and Spanish manuscripts. He wasn't just struggling with words; he was struggling with a ghost.

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Berman uses the term "trial" in a double sense, inspired by Martin Heidegger: Trial of the Foreign: In a cramped, candle-lit study in 1980s Paris,