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Interview: a translator on falling out of love with language
A long conversation about translation, fidelity, and the seductive trap of a beautiful sentence.
Lucia Marenco · Mar 12 · 4 min
On the difference between a piece that's incomplete and one that's just waiting for you to forgive it.
A long conversation about translation, fidelity, and the seductive trap of a beautiful sentence.
What a 1973 paperback taught me about reading slowly enough to argue with the author.
Three weeks away from the laptop. What came back was unrecognizable — and better.
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