Translation

The process of converting text from one language to another. Translation of literary works can be highly challenging and is considered a literary pursuit in its own right.

Convenience Store Woman
The Vegetarian
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
The Odyssey
The Little Prince
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
The Stranger
Anna Karenina
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Master and Margarita
A Man Called Ove
Alan W. Watts
“ It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. ”
― Alan Wilson Watts

R.F. Kuang
“ But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal? ...more ”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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