The Necessity of Influence: A Conversation with Damion Searls (Part II, Translation)

Omivoracious menayangkan artikel wawancara dengan Damion Searls, seorang penulis-penerjemah. Artikel pertama tentang sisi kepenulisannya, artikel kedua tentang sisi kepenerjemahannya.

“In general I think poets understand better than prose writers (and editors and readers of prose) that it’s much more important to be a good writer in the language you translate into than fluent in the source language. It’s easy to work with native speakers and consult about difficult words or sentences; it’s hard to write a good sentence, and you can’t get much help with that. What matters is whether the result, the book in English, is as powerful as the original.”