Above, Madame Bovary in the original French. Below that, Margaret Mauldon’s translation, with Lydia Davis’s marginalia. At the very bottom, Lydia Davis’s final take. [via: http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/68712/] Me, on a street off Xavierville, thinking very hard—yet again—of the werqings of translation. Imma get it rite. Someday.
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Above, Madame Bovary in the original French. Below that, Margaret Mauldon’s translation, with Lydia Davis’s marginalia. At the very bottom, Lydia Davis’s final take. [via: http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/68712/]

Me, on a street off Xavierville, thinking very hard—yet again—of the werqings of translation. Imma get it rite. Someday.

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