But that is what publishers want to advertise, retranslations not revisions. If Proust weren't so long, we would have ten more translations of him by now, all basically Scott-Moncrieff nearly as much as the several revisions of his translation that have been made. Shaw's translation is a perfectly respectable one. Still, so much prolixity. But from this one understands one reason for the translation's frivolous carelessness.
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Go back to the text. When I went to it to test my recollection, I lost myself completely in the rereading. Go back to the text. From The New Criterion Vol.