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Examples
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Rabassa has little use for such arcana, and even less for the etymological snobs and sticklers -- he calls them "Professors Horrendo" -- whose sole purpose seems to be to make the translator's life hell.
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The Nobel laureate has since knighted Rabassa, only half-jokingly, as "the best Latin American writer in the English language."
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But when Rabassa is the one talking, it is worth listening in.
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Cortazar was pleased, and when Garcia Marquez was searching for someone to take on "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Cortazar urged him to wait for Rabassa, who was tied up on another commission.
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What they didn't get was that "hopscotch is a game," Rabassa writes, "something to be played."
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Rabassa has a book of his own out, not a translation.
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As Rabassa says, When I talk about it, I say the English is hiding behind his Spanish.
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And GGM has famously remarked that Rabassa did not translate but instead "rewrote" the book and in so doing, improved upon the original.
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I was reading Cortázar's Rayuela Hopscotch and using Rabassa's translation to help me through the hard parts, and I began realizing Rabassa had misunderstood idioms, mistranslated words, even left out entire chunks of text.
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I think for most of us who started reading Latin American literature in translation during and after the Boom, Rabassa has always been a kind of sacred figure.
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