Saturday, March 26, 2011

A.K. Ramanujan

"A translation has to be true to the translator no less than to the originals. Translation is choice, interpretation, an assertion of taste, a betrayal of what answers to one's needs, one's envies."

A.K. Ramanujan -- Translator's Note, "Speaking of Siva"

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