Can Translations Be Anything More Than Compromises?
(ArtsJournal Music)

Doesn´t translating a work of literature inevitably involve moving things around and altering many of the relations between the words in the original? In which case, either the original´s alleged perfection has been overstated, or the translation is indeed, as pessimists have often supposed, a fine but somewhat flawed copy.  – New York Review of […]