1. Introduction: Jose Lambert and descriptive research into literature, translation and culture; 2. Editorial note; 3. Acknowledgments; 4. Tabula gratulatoria; 5. Traduction et technique romanesque (1977); 6. Production, tradition et importation: une clef pour la description de la litterature et de la litterature en traduction (1980); 7. L'eternelle question des frontieres: litteratures nationales et systemes litteraires (1983); 8. On describing translations (with Hendrik Van Gorp, 1985); 9. Twenty years of research on literary translation at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1988); 10. In quest of literary world maps (1991); 11. Shifts, oppositions and goals in translation studies: towards a genealogy of concepts (1991); 12. Literatures, translation and (de)colonization (1995); 13. Translation, systems and research: the contribution of polysystem studies to translation studies (1995); 14. Problems and challenges of translation in an age of new media and competing models (1997); 15. From translation markets to language management: the implications of translation services (with Johan Hermans, 1998); 16. Cultural studies, the study of cultures and the question of language: facing / excluding the new millennium (2000); 17. La traduction litterature comme probleme belge, ou la litterature comme traduction (CETRA, 2004); 18. BIBLIOGRAPHY; 19. (1) Publications by Jose Lambert; 20. (2) Other references; 21. Name index; 22. Subject index

This Festschrift collection provides a memorable profile of the scholarly career (to date) of José Lambert, and at the same time serves the useful purpose of bringing together in a single volume a representative selection of thirteen papers in English and French that were originally published in different journals and books. The book is a fine salute to one of the most influential figures of contemporary Translation Studies. The papers have been reformatted, given a unified bibliography and "lightly edited", but the author's inimitable remains. The editors contribute an exellent introductory chapter on "José Lambert and descriptive research into literature, translation and culture", and at the end of the book there is a complete list of Lambert's own publications up to 2005, a name index and a subject index. [...] José Lambert has become more than a catalyst; he has surely become an institution in his own right, and this collection does him credit.