Extrapolation, December 22nd, 2006
Ursula K. Le Guin is fascinated not just by language, but by languages. As well as poet, critic, and author of fiction for adults and children, Le Guin is a translator. Although it is only in recent years that Le Guin's translations have been published in book form, her interest in translation is long-standing; she began a doctorate in French and Italian Renaissance poetry, and has published English translations of a number of foreign-language poems. In recent years, Le Guin has published four books which can be classified as works of translation: her own version of the Tao Te Ching, transla...
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