<B>The long-awaited memoir and meditation on the art of translating by the most acclaimed American translator of Latin American literature.</B> Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is incalculable. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's <I>One Hundred Years of Solitude</I> and Julio Cortazar's <I>Hopscotch</I> have helped make these some of the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation of <I>One Hundred Years</I> was better than the Spanish original.) In <I>If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents</I> Rabassa offers a cool-headed and humorous defense of translation, laying out his views on the art of the craft. Anecdotal, and always illuminating, <I>If This Be Treason</I> traces Rabassa's career, from his boyhood on a New Hampshire farm, his school days "collecting" languages, the two-and-a-half years he spent overseas during WWII, his travels, until one day "I signed a contract to do my first translation of a long work [Cortazar's <I>Hopscotch</I>] for a commercial publisher." Rabassa concludes with his "rap sheet," a consideration of the various authors and the over 40 works he has translated. This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.