Dante, Descartes, Dostoevsky—they are all authors we read as part of our Core Curriculum, but more specifically, they are just a few of the authors that we read in translation. Although much of our Core Curriculum relies heavily on translated texts, the role of the translator is hardly examined—and understandably so. Unless a whole class speaks, say, fluent Spanish, it is impossible to fully dissect Edith Grossman’s translation of “Don Quixote.”
