Edith Grossman Quotes:
Ocupation: Translator
Life: b. March 22, 1936
Birthday: March 22
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.
source: Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press
topic: Disappointment, Athlete, Adventure, Warming Up, Bitter Disappointment, Mountain Climbers
