How?

How?

All translators agree - perhaps to irritate theorists - that experience is their best friend and the single most significant element assuring a high quality of their work. This is all very well, but one has to start somehow.

This section does not explain anything. It simply gives a true account of a single case.

We shall follow a young translator, who, armed with a recommendation letter from one of his teachers, timorously enters the sumptuous building of a renowned publishing house...