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“Not to change them, just to retranslate them so their value is once again present.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2022

In translation it doubled in size and changed so much that after it was published, she had to retranslate it back into Spanish.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2016

In recent years, Wesleyan University Press has spearheaded the movement to retranslate the full texts of many of Jules Verne’s scientific romances, what he called his “voyages extraordinaires.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2015

But Nabokov claimed that Roy’s translation was “sloppy” and “full of blunders” and, when approached by a publisher about an American edition in 1938, he chose to retranslate the novel himself.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2014

His fingers had itched in the first place to retranslate the duel scene in order to restore the strength of the ballade in English.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie