October 6, 2000

Missing Out on a World of Scholarship

By ANDRE SCHIFFRIN

By ANDRÉ SCHIFFRIN

Nearly every day, a catalog from a publisher in Europe lands on my desk. Those from Germany and Holland, lavishly printed in full color on heavy, coated stock, do so with a loud thump; the French, Italian, and Spanish catalogs are more modest, still in black and white, with words outweighing glossy photographs. But all have one thing in common: They list a large number of translations from the United States and Britain. Indeed, at some of the

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