If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents Gace ISBN13: 9780631189497

ISBN13: 9780631189497

Before Caro can become Michael's ideal bride

But what actually happened

and Booklist called it "a beautiful and haunting modern fable that reads like exquisite poetry"

to the Lodz poet Yitzhak Katzenelson before and during the Holocaust

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents Gace ISBN13: 9780631189497A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005. Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation of One Hundred Years was better than the Spanish original.) In If This Be