Barbara Wright: Translation as Art Russia he edited the literary magazine

he edited the literary magazine Perspektive and was briefly jailed on political charges

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Barbara Wright: Translation as Art Russia he edited the literary magazineThis wonderful collection of texts by and about Barbara Wrightthe most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literaturebegins the work of properly commemorating a figure toward whom all of English letters owes an unpayable debt. Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature. Wright introduced to