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Originally Posted by Stingo
An interesting list if for no other reason than the omissions. No Nabokov or Tolstoy or Ishiguro or Heinlein or Lewis or Clarke. Ishiguro, Lewis and Clarke I would have certainly expected on an English list.
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Of course being the BBC they had to preach for England!
That said, I have not seen many translations that could pass as masterworks. I've seen more become junk. Okay I exagerated .
The story does not always make the book. A lot of times the writing does, that's where a translation buckles a bit.