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Pablo Strauss

Pablo Strauss is the translator of Fauna.

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Bricks without Straw

Toward a sureness of hand October 2020
Paul Auster likens translation to shovelling coal. I think of it as more like laying bricks. With one small move at a time, you build a wall to bear a load of meaning. Oh, and it should somehow be exactly like another wall made from different materials for another climate by someone whose mental image of a wall is nothing like your…