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  1. A Translator's Long Journey, Page by Page

    On Gregory Rabassa's crowded bookshelves is a first edition of "Rayuela," the experimental 1963 novel by the Argentine novelist Julio Cortázar. Mr. Rabassa had just finished his Ph.D. in Portuguese in the mid-1960's when an editor at Pantheon — who had noticed his work editing a failed literary magazine at Columbia University — asked him to translate Mr.


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  2. Sax Advice

    • Published:
      1. New York Times, February 02, 2004
    • Metainfo:
      • 104 words
      • 3.5 inches

    (An Elizabethan sonnet.) In the cold distance he tooted his horn Up the deep caverns of Fifth Avenue Hearing from across the street I was torn The time was nigh, my burning question due I dropped a folded dollar


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