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Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as translation)
avg rating 3.68 � 332,876 ratings � published 2016
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as translation)
avg rating 3.63 � 272,811 ratings � published 2007
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 245 times as translation)
avg rating 4.05 � 412,744 ratings � published 2011
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as translation)
avg rating 4.12 � 1,047,561 ratings � published 1967
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 216 times as translation)
avg rating 4.08 � 439,677 ratings � published 2006
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as translation)
avg rating 4.10 � 891,696 ratings � published 1878
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 210 times as translation)
avg rating 3.95 � 127,055 ratings � published 2009
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 207 times as translation)
avg rating 4.30 � 683,108 ratings � published 2001
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
by (shelved 206 times as translation)
avg rating 4.17 � 3,338,489 ratings � published 2005
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as translation)
avg rating 3.82 � 1,139,361 ratings � published -700
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as translation)
avg rating 4.03 � 1,265,998 ratings � published 1942
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as translation)
avg rating 4.38 � 1,135,653 ratings � published 2012
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as translation)
avg rating 4.29 � 390,227 ratings � published 1967
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as translation)
avg rating 4.33 � 2,311,813 ratings � published 1943
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 182 times as translation)
avg rating 3.67 � 580,107 ratings � published 2015
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as translation)
avg rating 4.28 � 995,955 ratings � published 1866
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as translation)
avg rating 4.00 � 676,081 ratings � published 1987
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as translation)
avg rating 3.71 � 113,856 ratings � published 1994
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as translation)
avg rating 4.14 � 301,641 ratings � published 1994
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as translation)
avg rating 3.94 � 528,673 ratings � published 1985
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as translation)
avg rating 4.12 � 515,388 ratings � published 2002
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as translation)
avg rating 3.49 � 333,508 ratings � published 1000
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as translation)
avg rating 4.02 � 105,976 ratings � published 1979
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as translation)
avg rating 3.92 � 3,348,996 ratings � published 1988
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as translation)
avg rating 3.89 � 1,287,041 ratings � published 1915
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as translation)
avg rating 4.31 � 972,677 ratings � published 1846
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as translation)
avg rating 3.92 � 484,133 ratings � published -800
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 139 times as translation)
avg rating 4.26 � 957,406 ratings � published 2006
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 135 times as translation)
avg rating 3.95 � 328,942 ratings � published 2009
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as translation)
avg rating 4.16 � 351,311 ratings � published 1869
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
by (shelved 126 times as translation)
avg rating 4.45 � 212,302 ratings � published 2012
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as translation)
avg rating 4.14 � 382,151 ratings � published 1980
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as translation)
avg rating 3.80 � 193,276 ratings � published 2006
82년생 김지� (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as translation)
avg rating 4.17 � 172,773 ratings � published 2016
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as translation)
avg rating 4.38 � 359,947 ratings � published 1880
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 123 times as translation)
avg rating 4.18 � 316,718 ratings � published 1995
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as translation)
avg rating 4.11 � 512,915 ratings � published 1984
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as translation)
avg rating 4.08 � 829,866 ratings � published 1922
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as translation)
avg rating 4.05 � 87,377 ratings � published 2003
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as translation)
avg rating 3.71 � 356,130 ratings � published 1856
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as translation)
avg rating 4.20 � 4,000,892 ratings � published 1947
The Summer Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as translation)
avg rating 4.02 � 46,979 ratings � published 1972
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as translation)
avg rating 3.90 � 116,500 ratings � published 1988
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as translation)
avg rating 3.72 � 45,837 ratings � published 2014
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 112 times as translation)
avg rating 4.24 � 759,169 ratings � published 2007
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as translation)
avg rating 3.90 � 292,092 ratings � published 1615
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)
by (shelved 109 times as translation)
avg rating 4.36 � 175,259 ratings � published 2013
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as translation)
avg rating 4.17 � 724,677 ratings � published 2019
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as translation)
avg rating 4.21 � 825,315 ratings � published 1862
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as translation)
avg rating 4.02 � 292,337 ratings � published 1947
“Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like one another. In the same way a translation, instead of resembling the meaning of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's mode of signification, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language. Those words need to be rinsed, washed, carved and decorated as much as possible.”
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