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Henry Kissinger, Great Neck Publishing, 09/01/2005, 09/01/2005, United States of United States of America, Available Now, TX0. Biography, 9781429802703.
United States of America, Available Now, 1DCF.
He followed Hopscotch with seven more translations in four years: Mulata and Strong Wind by Asturias; The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector; The Green.

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The Translator in His Labyrinth

By Lucas Rivera

A profile of Gregory Rabassa, the man who brought One Hundred Years of Solitude, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez' masterpiece, to the English-speaking world.

Now 81, Gregory Rabassa is probably the most important translator of the 20th century. “I guess my work has had an impact on Latin American literature,” he said. Over the last four decades, Rabassa has translated more than three dozen books from Spanish and Portuguese into English, including works by Nobel laureates Gabriel García Márquez, Octavio Paz, and Miguel Angel Asturias and literary heavyweights Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa and Jorge Amado.

These days, Rabassa can be found stooped over his old typewriter, laboriously mulling over the scattered pages of a manuscript. Thin ash-gray hair covering his bowed head as if immersed in prayer, he deletes paragraphs, changes words and inserts whole passages. His new book, If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Disconte

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Books That Left a Lasting Impression

Over the last few years, I've read 20-40 books each year. Some were throwaway works, while others made a lasting impression and I've given away copies to friends. I think that books are still one of the best ways to communicate complex ideas and to engage with some of the best insights of history, so I want to share some of the things that colored how I think about the world. (If you know the inputs, you can guess the outputs, no?)

That said, I also want to recognize a certain myopia the lends to the list being full old white men. While I can't change the past, the future is yet unwritten – and most importantly, still unread.

Nonfiction - Technical

Turing’s Cathedral
George Dyson
This is the book that got me into computers. Dense but fascinating story of the birth of electronic computers (the hardware of it all) and how the big/fundamental software problems have not changed at all.

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
by James Gleick
This is the "software" companion to Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral". Illuminating. Claud