Efrain Kristal. Invisible Work: Borges and Translation.(Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery)(Book review)

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Efrain Kristal. Invisible Work: Borges and Translation, Vanderbilt University Press: Nashville, 2002. Pp. 213.

Sergio Waisman. Borges and Translation. The Irreverence of the Periphery, Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series; Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005. Pp. 267.

Questions about translation represented a life-long preoccupation for Jorge Luis Borges. His first foray into the practice of translation, as recounted by his mother, was a version of Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince" published in the Buenos Aires newspaper El pais when ...

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