Shading and Retranslation: Translator Burton Pike’s Comments at BookExpo America
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By: Burton Pike | June 8, 2015
In recent years, literary translators have paid more attention to the shadings of the original work, whereas earlier translators were more focused on simply translating the story told rather… More
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