Word: lupin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leon Gordon, author of White Cargo, onetime actor in Brewster's Millions, Arsene Lupin, Raffles, was severely injured in an automobile accident in Sidney, Australia...
...hand, we do like our English diluted. A few words here and there in italics harm no one and give the reader a good deal of innocent pleasure. French is the most accustomed seasoning. A good round French oath makes all the difference, particularly in a detective story. Arsene Lupin is nowhere so redoubtable as where he breaks into his native idiom. A good part of the art of translation consists in knowing when not to translate. The result is that practically any current translation from the French reads like a perfumery advertisement on a theatre program...
...upon translation alone. Gilbert Murray, of course, is almost unique among those who are rather transcribers, in a way, than actual, line-for-line translators. Alexander Teixera de Mattos is justly remembered, on the one hand, for his translations of Maeterlinck, on the other for his versions of Arsene Lupin. Louise Garnett's translations of Dostoieffski have brought her deserved and discriminating praise. But, in general, the translator is reduced to the scraps that fall from the critical table. "The translation seems adequate," cautiously, from a reviewer whom it might take three months and a private tutor to read...