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Article: Thomas Christensen, ed. New World/New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas.(Book review)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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- September 22, 2008
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Thomas Christensen, ed. New World/New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas. Foreword Gregory Rabassa. Center for the Art of Translation, 2007. 248 pp. Paper: $18.95.
Translation is recognized as a discipline, but often paid lip service as an art. Such a narrow view of literature and language is hard to sustain after perusing New World/New Words, a bilingual anthology of recent Latin American poetry and prose edited by Thomas Christensen. Christensen has achieved the seemingly impossible--assembling a compact yet comprehensive volume, featuring authors familiar to English readers (Luisa Valenzuela, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, Pablo Neruda) while ...
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