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Chosen Literatures: Core Languages, Peripheral Languages, and the World Literary System

2014; University of Manitoba Press; Volume: 47; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/mos.2014.0036

1925-5683

Albert Braz,

Translation Studies and Practices

Through an examination of the international fate of João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas, this essay contends that those texts that are able to enter world literature in the language in which they are originally written have a critical advantage over those that can do so only through translation.