"They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature.
Engdahl makes one good point when he objects that America "doesn't translate enough".
They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature..
That fact may underlie Mr. Engdahl's comments, and especially his observation that we don't translate enough foreign literature.
They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature...That ignorance is restraining".
They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature," Engdahl said.
Americans "don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature," Engdahl said at the time.
The American fiction-reading world, though sometimes reproached for not translating enough contemporary literature from foreign languages, actually has a huge appetite for stories about other people who live in other ways.
Horace Engdahl, a member of the Swedish Academy who reputedly speaks five languages, made headlines last year when he chided Americans for being "too isolated, too insular" because we don't translate enough.
