"El original es infiel a la traducción."
— Absurdism
January 1, 1970
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Absurdism
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The original is unfaithful to the translation. — Jorge Luis Borges, on William Thomas Beckford's Vathek (1782) and Samuel Henley's 1786 translation, in "Sobre el Vathek de William Beckford" (1943)
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The original is unfaithful to the translation. — Jorge Luis Borges, on William Thomas Beckford's Vathek (1782) and Samuel Henley's 1786 translation, in "Sobre el Vathek de William Beckford" (1943)