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The Translator's Invisibility traces the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day. It shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English, and investigates the cultural consequences of the domestic... read more

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First Sentence

I see translation as the attempt to produce a text so transparent that it does not seem to be translated.

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  1. Lawrence Venuti (Author)

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  1. history
  2. nonfiction
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