Jamie Steinberg’s Reviews > Babel > Status Update

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”

IM FOAMING AT THE MOUTH GOD. I read this book to see if RF Kuang was actually good or if her marketing is just insane. KUANG IS GOOD.