Volume 28, Number 17 · November 5, 1981
Climbing Macchu Picchu
By Alastair Reid
Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu
by John Felstiner
Stanford University Press, 284 pp., $18.50
Translators, more than anyone else, tend to become weary of the subject of translation. Enmeshed in it, they balk at discussing its impossibilities. For them, each literary work presents its peculiar problems, all requiring unique solutions, so that for them there can be no theory of translation, only the exacting act, varying enormously from text to text. Assailed by the reservations of others, they tend to throw down their finished versions defiantly, and stalk off without another word.
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