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Title: "Translating" Proust has become a racket in the last 16 years
Review: Got sent this book by mistake, but I was game for a fresh reading. Like many, I'm not sure why Lydia Davis bothered with yet another translation so soon after the failed Penguin translations. The only one who got it right in the past 20 years was D.J. Enright, but Amazon has all but choked that version out of its selection, perhaps because it's not the latest "annual" translation by yet another "professor" who teaches literature at the community college. Starthereand work your way through the rest of the set. And please, if you have the urge to write YET ANOTHER TRANSLATION, get a life. It's been done to death now.
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