译者的隐身

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• Most of all, I wish to speak to translators and readers of translations, both professional and nonprofessional, focusing their attention on the ways that translations are written and read and urging them to think of new ones. (查看原文)

  combo 2016-06-06 15:37:33

• A translated text, whether prose or poetry, fiction or nonfiction, is judged acceptable by most publishers, reviewers, and readers when it reads fluently, when the absence of any linguistic or stylistic peculiarities makes it seem transparent, giving the appearance that it reflects the foreign writer’s personality or intention or the essential meaning of the foreign text—the appearance, in other words, that the translation is not in fact a translation, but the “original.” The more fluent the translation, the more invisible the translator, and, presumably, the more visible the writer or meaning of the foreign text. (查看原文)

  combo 2016-06-06 15:53:47

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