Chekhov's Mistress
Ana Maria…
has some things to say partly relating to my recent post on the desire for literalness in translation. She says:
I’m willing to admit that my predisposition has always been to the more “literal” side, but perhaps I owe this to a somewhat Romantic notion of authorial inspiration? That is, the closer something sticks to the literal meaning, the closer we are to authorial intent. But is this merely an almost mystical trust in the efficacy of words?
read the rest of When fidelity is treasonous at Out of the Woods Now.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: October 25, 2006
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