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Gregory Rabassa is the author of If this be Treason (2005), O negro na ficçâo Brasileira (1965), One Hundred Years of Solitude (2009), Cloudy Day in Gray Minor (1989), A Cloudy Day in Gray Minor (1992).

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If this be Treason

release date: Jan 01, 2005
If this be Treason
Gregory Rabassa''s influence as a translator is incalculable. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar''s Hopscotch have helped make these some of the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation of One Hundred Years was better than the Spanish original.) In If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents Rabassa offers a cool-headed and humorous defense of translation, laying out his views on the art of the craft. Anecdotal, and always illuminating, If This Be Treason traces Rabassa''s career, from his boyhood on a New Hampshire farm, his school days "collecting" languages, the two-and-a-half years he spent overseas during WWII, his travels, until one day "I signed a contract to do my first translation of a long work [Cortazar''s Hopscotch] for a commercial publisher." Rabassa concludes with his "rap sheet," a consideration of the various authors and the over 40 works he has translated. This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

release date: Jul 01, 2009
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A novel for secondary school English classes with great writing and important themes.

Cloudy Day in Gray Minor

release date: Jan 01, 1989

A Cloudy Day in Gray Minor

release date: Jan 01, 1992
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