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Quotes from ON TRANSLATIONS translated into English in The complete critical prose — Osip Mandelstam

1891–1938 Poland

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Why can't we shake things up, why can't these good translators be utilized in collective undertakings?

ON TRANSLATIONS translated into English in The complete critical prose (1997)

Every book should be an incentive to studying the language. Every book should provide at least some contact with the original, for example, a parallel text and a glossary. At present we are struggling to take the translation business away from the caste leader, for whom the mass reader is a fiction, an "easy mark" ignorant of foreign languages.

ON TRANSLATIONS translated into English in The complete critical prose (1997)

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