 She is indisputably, in quantity as in quality, one of the great translators of our time.Thomas Mann and Proust were lucky in their translators.Though early reviewers were generally impressed by the relative readability of Lowe-Porter’s English and by the sheer scale of the task, from the 1950s on doubts were expressed about the accuracy of the translations, culminating in Timothy Buck’s study which led him to conclude that they constituted "grossly distorted and diminished versions" of Mann’s work, and that "the loss, not only of accuracy but also of quality, is inestimable.