MCLC: The Pearl Jacket review (1)

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: yomi braester (yomi at u.washington.edu)
Subject: The Pearl Jacket review (1)
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With regard to the The Pearl Jacket review, I appreciate Shouhua Qi's
endeavor. In my opinion, however, the translation is often literal,
unidiomatic, and insensitive to speech registers. It does not compare to
the fluent and inspired renderings by Goldblatt, Berry, and Rojas and Chow.

Yomi Braester 
University of Washington