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21-12-2006  How to Read a Translation
New York, USA (WWB): Want to know how a professional literary translator thinks? Then read this interesting and enlightening article. Excerpt: "To read a translation as a translation, as a work in its own right, we need a more practical sense of what a translator does. [the author Lawrence Venuti] would describe it as an attempt to compensate for an irreparable loss by controlling an exorbitant gain."

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brave-new-words.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-to-read-translation.html

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