“Who would think that the small town of Lexington, Va., would be able to provide a translation service for 50 different languages? Who would think there would be a demand for it? Yet such a service does exist and it’s free.”
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“In the literary world, translators are low in the pecking order. Titans like Milan Kundera and Isaac Bashevis Singer have branded them traitors for betraying the beauty of the original text, so most keep their heads down and hew closely to the source material. In their 2007 version of “War and Peace,” translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky preserved Tolstoy’s use of “wept” seven times in a single scene. But hold on a minute—is such slavish devotion really the right approach?”
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