THE FEED: OCT 4TH

What we're reading:

The secret of "Les Miserables"
(Telegraph): On its 25th anniversary, Sir Cameron Mackintosh explains the show's success

A sad song
(Wall Street Journal): A new book, "The Music Instinct", explores the connection between music and emotion

Writing is not a sport
(Los Angeles Times): "How do you quantify the best book when reading is such a subjective activity?"

Today's quote:

"Here, then, is the full process of translation. At one point we have a writer in a room, struggling to approximate the impossible vision that hovers over his head. He finishes it, with misgivings. Some time later we have a translator struggling to approximate the vision, not to mention the particulars of language and voice, of the text that lies before him. He does the best he can, but is never satisfied. And then, finally, we have the reader. The reader is the least tortured of this trio, but the reader too may very well feel that he is missing something in the book, that through sheer ineptitude he is failing to be a proper vessel for the book’s overarching vision."

~ Michel Cunningham, "Found in Translation" (New York Times)

(Via The Economist)

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