Monday, July 15, 2013

Transforming telling into seeing …

… Dear God, Your Message Was Received in Error - Asymptote. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The translator's note to Borges' "Averroës" is now inseparable from the story itself in English, in the translator's English. Hurly (as the translator of a translator) captures perfectly Borges' sentiment when the latter writes at the end of the "Search:" "I felt that the work mocked me, foiled me, thwarted me [...] (And just when I stop believing in him, 'Averroës' disappears)." - 

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