Barbara Wright: Translation as Art Argentina Billy Recco

Billy Recco

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the artist is at odds with the prevalent conduct and thinking of his age

and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award

Barbara Wright: Translation as Art Argentina Billy ReccoThis wonderful collection of texts by and about Barbara Wrightthe most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literaturebegins the work of properly commemorating a figure toward whom all of English letters owes an unpayable debt. Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature. Wright introduced to