Diplomat, Actor, Translator, Spy

In recent years theories about translation have proliferated.  Yet surprisingly little has been written about what it actually feels like to be a translator: to spend one's days devoted to the words of another.  Bernard Turle's Diplomat, Actor, Translator, Spy seeks to address certain prevailing translation theories, but above all to give a sense of the true task of the translator — a daily grind that is anything but abstract.  Through twenty-six alphabetically organized recolle…