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If João Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it’s likely he’d be more broadly translated.

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If João Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it’s likely he’d be more broadly translated.
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One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.
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And these are universal relational matters, not necessarily particular to any country.
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Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by Joao Gilberto Noll was available in English translation.
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English offers both obscurity and dark or darkness, and some translators will tell you the Latinate word is generally reserved for poetic and figurative expressions, while the Germanic word is used for colloquial and idiomatic use.
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