The Art of Translation

“I try to follow the rule laid down by perhaps the greatest translator of all, John Dryden, who maintained that a translator should – and I paraphrase – make the version as entertaining as possible, while at the same time remaining as faithful as possible to the spirit of the original” – Ranjit Bolt.

In this book, Ranjit Bolt takes what is essentially a practitioner''s view of the art of literary t...