Underground Letters

“The Italians call the translator a betrayer or a traitor [traditore]. I don’t think of translators as that. I think of them as counterfeiters. Now, a successful counterfeiter must imitate, he must reproduce every detail of his original to the best of his ability, not changing anything. If he is counterfeiting a one-dollar bill, he reproduces George Washington’s warts. He does not prettify. To prettify a one-dollar to make George a handsomer boy on his one-dollar bill than he is on the original one-dollar bill, makes for a bad counterfeiter.”
—Edward George Seidensticker.

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