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
The Odyssey
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Anna Karenina
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Stranger
The Master and Margarita
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
A Man Called Ove
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
Walter Benjamin
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Alan W. Watts
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
Alan Wilson Watts

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