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480 words A discussion of the difficulties attendant upon accurate translation taking the translation of Sienkiewicz's description of the Forum Romanum in Quo Vadis as an exemplar
150 words A comparison of two translations of the opening paragraphs of Reymont's novel The Promised Land
220 words Review of the book in which Hoffman seeks to analyze the personal meaning of the same words in Polish and English.
1,890 words An account of both the historical fates of an early Polish translation of the American Declaration of Independence and of the linguistic difficulties experienced by the author in making a 1992 translation of the document (see link below)
3 webpages A 1992 Polish translation of the Declaration of Independence (see link above for comment)
4,330 words Further discussion (see the two links above) of the problems of translation as applied to the Declaration of Independence, expanded to include also languages other than Polish
130 words flag   Short review of the book authored by Stanislaw Baranczak, a poet and phenomenal translator
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