The Treachery of Translators (The New York Times)

By Andy Martin, January 28 2013

The fact is, there were always going to be a lot of fish in “Vingt mille lieues sous les mers.” When a publishing house commissioned me to produce a new translation of Jules Verne’s 19th-century underwater epic, I was confident of bringing a degree of joyous panache to the story of Captain Nemo, his submarine, the Nautilus and that by CouponDropDown">giant killer squid. But I had forgotten about its systematic taxonomy of all the inhabitants of the seven seas. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>