Tuesday, January 22, 2019

In case you wondered …

 Can a Translation Be a Masterpiece, Too? | by Tim Parks | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I pretty much has to be, which is not to say that it is exactly the same as the original. I've translated a few poems from German. I think it is possible to get across something of what it feels like to read the original.

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