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Literary murder at 5¢ a word: pitfalls for translators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Josef Skvorecky
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Abstract

What happens when people translate ‘works of literature’? Do we lose more than we gain whenever a text is rendered from one language into another, or is accessibility in any form better than no translation at all?

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Special Features
Information
English Today , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 39 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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