Rivista internazionale di tecnica della traduzione n.01 - 1995

In thinking about the various essays and articles included in this volume, l have been tempted to call the preface by several different names. First l thought of entitling it "Armchair Ruminations on the Art of Translation" in honor of those English philosophers who engaged in "armchair linguistics" in the 1950s. Then, to paraphrase Eliot, l came up with "To Criticize the (Translation) Critic", since much of what appears in this volume is, in one way or another, concerned with the criticism of translations. Finally, however, it seemed to me that the best title was "The Quest for the Perfect Translation", which corresponds roughly to "The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow."

Gerald Parks