Gary Saul Morson

About

Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. His most recent book is Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.

A Question of Purpose

from Lessons of Babel, Volume 27, Number 2

One must translate the work, not the words on the page. They are not the same.