Boston Translation

An ongoing conversation of news in and about literary translation, held among the editors, contributors, and readers of Pusteblume, a journal of translation at Boston University.

Friday, October 12, 2007

The irresistability of translation

Quotation from taken from Jean R. Longland's "World World Vast World of Poetic Translation", Latin American Research Review, 1977:
Literary translation is an addiction. A happy few are able to surrender their lives to it. We others sacrifice our precious free time and our social lives to this irrestistible addiction.

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