![]() ![]() ![]() Why does there need to be another translation?” or “But Madame Bovary has been available in English for a long time, hasn’t it? Why would you want to translate it again?” Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn’t occur to people-or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original. When he heard that I had just finished a translation of Madame Bovary, he said something like, “But Madame Bovary has already been translated. Not long ago, I was chatting with an older friend who is a retired engineer and also something of a writer, but not of fiction.
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