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‘It’s exciting, it’s powerful’: how translated fiction captured a new generation of readers
(www.theguardian.com)
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Is something lost in translating 100 Years of Solitude from Spanish into English?
Absolutely?
Are there many books originally written in English that are better than the English translation of 100 Years of Solitude?
Very very few, actually.