Sentence examples for splendid translation from inspiring English sources
Paul Vincent is to be commended for his splendid translation and Pushkin Press for bringing us this plus Mortier's prize-winning fiction.
A novel of longing and thwarted desires, filled with Morante's "brutal directness and familial torment" (James Wood, Arturoo's Island reemerges in this splendid translation to take its rightful place in the world literary canon.
A User's Manual" by the late Georges Perec, in a splendid translation from French by David Bellos.
This splendid new translation of essential selections from oeOn Anger, presented with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, offers readers a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger.
In some places, he invented splendid back-translations -- putting Hofstadter's English translations of a poem by Marot into French, for example, to quite special and intriguing effect.
And the translation, by Kathleen Ross, is splendid: inventive, idiomatic and precise without being pedantic.
On the blank left-hand page, Nabokov has written a quotation from Conrad, who told Garnett's husband, Edward, "Remember me affectionately to your wife, whose translation of Karenina is splendid.
All of the films have received splendid digital transfers and new, improved subtitle translations, but it's the bonuses that make this one of Criterion's best releases yet.
Leaving Tangier is a vivid and splendid novel (though not Linda Coverdale's most idiomatic translation) and has the feeling of containing everything Ben Jelloun knows about emigration; it is hardly the worse for seeming very occasionally a little didactic.
Judging by the translation, Cahan's style was plain, rapid, without literary flourishes and extremely concrete — a splendid device for a journalist who was trying to reach the common folk to whom he became guru, father confessor and Emily Post.
Though not a definitive gathering of Ho's work, Balaban's deft translations are a beautiful and significant contribution to the West's growing awareness of Vietnam's splendid literary heritage.
