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Coming soon: eBooks!

Posted 218 days ago by John Gray

By way of a trailer for an upcoming blog post on eBooks and translation, I wanted to share a couple of quotes I found in the course of researching it. The first is Borges: “De todos los instrumentos del hombre, …

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Two reflections on literary translation

Posted 457 days ago by John Gray

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.” I came across this characteristically gnomic utterance in an essay by Borges on French writer William Beckford’s Vathek (1782). For Borges, translation was both a primary literary act and a primary metaphor for …

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