Chu: Translators across the world at the time didn’t really follow what we understand as translation. We expect that translation should be somehow accurate. And translation is often regarded as a derivative, a secondary art to the original work. But the late 19th-, early 20th-century modernists were making their art with a different premise of translation. That is, translation is supposed to be in competition with the original.
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