title: Collected French Translations: Prose
author:  John Ashbery 
description: Meticulously faithful yet nimbly inventive . . . We are fortunate that John Ashbery has . . . brought to it such care and imaginative resourcefulness. <i>Lydia Davis, New York Times Book Review on John Ashbery's translation of Illuminations</i>
zlib_text: Translation/History/Culture
   
   
   
  
  Translation Studies
  General editors: Susan Bassnett and André Lefevere
  In the same series:
  Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame
  André Lefevere
  Translation, Poetics and the Stage
  Six French Hamlets
  Romy Heylen
   
   
   
  
  Translation/History/Culture
   
  A Sourcebook
  Edited by André Lefevere
   
   
   
   
   
  London and New York
  
  First published 1992
  by Routledge
  11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
   
  This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
   
  Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
  by Routledge
  a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc.
  29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
   
  © 1992 André Lefevere
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