Ep 168: The Art of Translation
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Translating a Book - Do You Know Enough Spanish to Translate?
When i did my first translation, i had no idea of what thoughts had gone into the process. And very often that led to certain angularities. One of a british critic described my translation of churunges fruity and spicy as not english. It had all these o exotic, equatorial flavors, a ite from a different land. But in retrospect, i wonder if that's necessarily a bad thing either. The real battle is not about fealty and beauty, because there's no conflict between them. No whie. Lets i am translating from bangla to english. So is my English going to bring bangline to it? Or is the banglaltex
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