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O lamentable shadows, Obscurity of strife! I choose a pleasant life Among indolent meadows; Wisdom must live a bitter life. ―Yeats, ‘At the Hawk’s Well’ (1917) Year by year, human beings get older and older. Some of them interpret it as being mature, wise and experienced. On the other hand, some might think they are losing their youngness and public authority. Old/young, dream/reality and fate/free will –they could be the two sides of a coin. This article discusses Yeats’s vi

Carmen Laforet’s Nada (Nothing) is a romance and a coming-of-age story whose nucleus is the scenario left by the Spanish civil war.

This article delves into the at-times censorious nature of translation and uses Karl May's Winnetou trilogy as an example.

This articles goes into the nature of geography in literary translation.