Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco, Lost (and Found) in Translation

Eco makes Silvio Berlusconi sound like a Frankenstein amalgamation of Bush, Murdoch and Trump.
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Eco makes Silvio Berlusconi sound like a Frankenstein amalgamation of Bush, Murdoch and Trump.

In Turning Back the Clock, a collection of charming, bite-size missives from the millennial trenches of “Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi,” the good-faith give-and-take of the conscientious translator becomes “the very base of cultural life.”  read more »