“I have two large panes of glass at the bottom of the window above the desk where I work, one has little distorting flaws in it, the other, probably a modern replacement, allows an undistorted view of the garden beyond. In presenting a foreign text in English, I would wish to be like that perfectly transparent pane of glass, but I’m well aware that the slightly distorting pane is probably the one I resemble.”
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Germany
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But her work will live on.
India
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Translating Asterix into English was a stupendous job. Not once while reading the comics does one get a feeling that the work is a translation. R.I.P. Anthea
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