Mark Polizzotti, "Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto" (MIT Press, 2018)

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The success of a translator may seem to lie in going unnoticed: the translator ducks out of the spotlight so that the original author may shine. Mark Polizzotti challenges that idea in a provocative treatise on his craft, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto (MIT Press, 2018). “A good translation, created by a thoughtful and talented translator," Polizzotti writes, "aims not to betray the original but to honor it by offering something of equal--possibly even greater--beauty in its name. Polizzotti has translated over 50 books and authored or co-authored four of his own. He is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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