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This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.

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"If translators are the anonymous heroes of contemporary literature, its anonymous superhero is Gregory Rabassa." -- The New York Times Book Review
"The best Latin American writer in the English language." -- Gabriel García Márquez
"Widely considered one of the greatest practitioners of his craft." -- The New York Times
"In this supple narrative, packed with erudition and yet leavened by Rabassa's mordant, often self-effacing wit, less becomes more." -- Newsweek
"Excellent literary entertainment. Read these pages while sipping a Brazilian caipirinha, and you'll spend a fine and mellow evening." -- Michael Dirda - The Washington Post
"An insider's view that is available nowhere else, and everyone, neophytes as well as past or present Spanish majors, can profit from it." -- The LA Times Book Review

If This Be Treason Translation and Its

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: 22/09/2006
      ISBN13: 9780811216654, 978-0811216654
      ISBN10: 0811216659

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.

      Trade Review
      "If translators are the anonymous heroes of contemporary literature, its anonymous superhero is Gregory Rabassa." -- The New York Times Book Review
      "The best Latin American writer in the English language." -- Gabriel García Márquez
      "Widely considered one of the greatest practitioners of his craft." -- The New York Times
      "In this supple narrative, packed with erudition and yet leavened by Rabassa's mordant, often self-effacing wit, less becomes more." -- Newsweek
      "Excellent literary entertainment. Read these pages while sipping a Brazilian caipirinha, and you'll spend a fine and mellow evening." -- Michael Dirda - The Washington Post
      "An insider's view that is available nowhere else, and everyone, neophytes as well as past or present Spanish majors, can profit from it." -- The LA Times Book Review

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