Translation

The process of converting text from one language to another. Translation of literary works can be highly challenging and is considered a literary pursuit in its own right.

Convenience Store Woman
The Vegetarian
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
The Little Prince
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Odyssey
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Anna Karenina
The Stranger
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Master and Margarita
A Man Called Ove
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
Salman Rushdie
The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained. ...more
Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Orson Welles
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
Orson Welles

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