If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents

The long-awaited memoir and meditation on the art of translating by the most acclaimed American translator of Latin American literature.
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 tha…