Mark Harman on Learning to Understand Both the Surfaces and “Subterranean Passages” of Kafka
Jordan Landsman Remembers the Writer Admired by Jorge Luis Borges, Alberto Manguel, and Others
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"We resent that there’s an interpretive element to translation."
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