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Skip to the navigation . Skip to the content . Reported from four continents, notably from Sri Lanka in the devastating wake of the 2004 tsunami, and most recently from Mexico City. New York Times, Newsweek, Village Voice. Currently, I am vying for trips to Afghanistan and China and preparing a book on US state-building in fragile and failed ...

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by Andrew Bast

A Translator's Long Journey, Page by Page
- Topics:
  - Arts
- Published:
  1. New York Times, May 25, 2004
- Metainfo:
  - 1171 words
  - 39.0 inches
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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