Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016), a Celebration
Graduate Center, City University of New York 5th Avenue and 34th Street, New York, United StatesFew figures have marked the English-language literature of our time as deeply as did Gregory Rabassa. Translator of Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch (1966), Clarice Lispector's The Apple in the Dark (1967), Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970), Mario Vargas Llosa's Conversation in the Cathedral (1974), Luis Rafael Sánchez's Macho Camacho's Beat (1980), Luisa Valenzuela's The Lizard's Tail (1983), José Lezama Lima's Paradiso (2005), and more than fifty other works from Spanish and Portuguese—and…