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Subject: Translating Svetlana Alexievich’s fragmented narratives
Excerpt: The article examined the challenges of translating Svetlana Alexievich’s work, particularly its many voices and fragmentary structure.
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The article examined the challenges of translating Svetlana Alexievich’s work, particularly its many voices and fragmentary structure. Preserving differences between speakers is part of the literary task, not merely a matter of sentence-level accuracy.
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