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If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents

By Gregory Rabassa
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By Gregory Rabassa
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This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005.


Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that th...