I think that translating is the most profound, most intimate way of reading. A translation is a wonderful, dynamic encounter between two languages, t… - Jhumpa Lahiri

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I think that translating is the most profound, most intimate way of reading. A translation is a wonderful, dynamic encounter between two languages, two texts, two writers. It entails a doubling, a renewal....It was a way of getting close to different languages, of feeling connected to writers very distant from me in space and time.