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Translation is an issue of great concern to the complete review, as the site has a strong focus on international literature -- much of which has been translated into English (and some of which hasn't; see also our index of foreign books under review).

This index lists all books:

About translation
Where multiple translations of a title have been reviewed

Books about Translation under Review:

ECO, Umberto: Experiences in Translation (B+)
FIGUEIRA, D.M.: Translating the Orient (B+) - The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe
GASS, William H.: Reading Rilke (B+)
GHANOONPARVAR, M.R.: Translating the Garden (B)
JOHNSON-DAVIES, Denys: Memories in Translation (B) - A Life Between the Lines Of Arabic Literature
KELLMAN, Steven G. (ed.): Switching Languages (B)
MONTGOMERY, Scott L.: Science in Translation (B+)
NGUGI wa Thiong'o: Decolonising the Mind (B)
O'NEILL, Patrick: Polyglot Joyce (B) - Fictions of Translation
PASTIOR, Oskar: o du roher iasmin (-) - Baudelaire variations
RABASSA, Gregory: If This Be Treason (B) - Translation and its Dyscontents
ROSSI, Paolo: Logic and the Art of Memory (B+)
[THIRLWELL, Adam: Miss Herbert (also: The Delighted States) -- A Collage of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes]
VENUTI, Lawrence: The Scandals of Translation (B+)
WALDROP, Rosmarie: Lavish Absence (B+) - Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès
WECHSLER, Robert: Performing without a Stage (B-)

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Books with Multiple Translations under Review

KALIDASA:
- Meghaduta:
  - as The Cloud-Messenger, (B) (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
  - as The Cloud Messenger, (B) (trans. F. and E.Edgerton)
  - as The Transport of Love, (B) (trans. Leonard Nathan)
- Sakuntala:
  - Abhijnanasakuntalam, (B) (trans. Chandra Raja
  - The Recognition of Sakuntala, (B+) (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
  - Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, (B+) (trans. B.S. Miller)
KHAYYAM, Omar:
- The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, (B-) (trans.: P.Avery/J.Heath-Stubbs)
- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, (A) (trans.: Edward FitzGerald)
TASSO, Torquato:
- Jerusalem Delivered, (A-) (trans.: Edward Fairfax)
- Jerusalem Delivered, (B+) (trans.: Anthony M. Esolen)

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