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Translating Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

Don Quixote compares reading a translation to looking at a tapestry from the back: the outline is dear but the lines are blurred. Any translator knows that he works in the element of imperfection, and the making of our new translation of Tocqueville's Democracy in America has left us vividly aware of this fact of life (for life, too, is like the back of a tapestry).