Radical translation consists in finding words for encounters with speakers who talk a different language for which no dictionary or grammar is yet available or, more exactly, a dictionary that is still in the process of being constructed. The example of Eudora Welty’s narrative transfigures the trauma of a cold-blooded assassination into a literary artwork; the reader takes a detour through the radical translation of fiction to attain radical empathy. Radical empathy challenges standard empathy to take empathizing to the next level in confronting experiences that cause empathic distress. Radical translation leads the way to radical empathy in extreme situations. A short “Ted Talk” is provided on trauma and radical empathy. The myth of Perseus-and-the-Medusa and the mirroring intervention of the work of art are witnesses to the empathic transfiguring of trauma. Empathy degree zero (previously introduced) takes on new meaning, and Mann’s Dr Faustus is engaged in this light: The road to hell is paved with radical empathy. Radical translation structures radical empathy: Camus’ The Plague (1947) exemplifies behavior in extreme situation, requiring radical translation of experience through radical empathy. To empathize against empathy until empathy creates out of its own wreck that which it contemplates.