Rachel's Reviews > If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents

I enjoyed this book so much; first on a linguistic level, enjoying the play and negotiation in the specificity with which Rabassa addresses diction choices from Spanish or Portuguese into English. Secondly in just being such a profound fan of Rabassa himself as a translator and the works he has translated (while he of course gave us the most beautiful rendering of Aureliano Buendía’s memory of ice, he also made an absolute masterwork in the Autumn of the Patriarch). It was true fun to read upon embarking into his recollection of translation each author and his processes. An excellent, clear eyed memoir filing insight into a wonderful literary prism.