Author, Editor, and Publisher
Someone once said that translation is its own form of art, and the principle behind this statement can be easily demonstrated. To do this, we will use the famous words that Louis XIV may or may not — most likely not — have said:
The reader who chiefly knows the King Arthur legend through the work of Thomas Malory — or, worse, through any of the large number of lesser derivatives — does himself a great disservice. The original in this case — as is often the case — is the best, and it does, in fact, feature — in Chretien de Troyes — one who is perhaps the most underrated author in the entirety of the Western Canon.
