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Emily Wilson
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How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and what might she gain - when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern life?Emily Wilson has spent a lifetime wrestling with these questions: here,…
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Translated by Emily WilsonA New York Times Notable Book of 2018"Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously…
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Translated by Emily WilsonThe greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our timeWhen Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the…
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