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In:Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fiction
Edited by Klaus Kaindl and Karlheinz Spitzl
[Benjamins Translation Library 110] 2014
► pp. 37–50

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The power of fiction as theory

Some exemplary lessons on translation from Borges’s stories

Published online: 28 January 2014
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