Few 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 himself the author of a number of books, including his prize-winning memoir If This Be Treason (2005)— Rabassa was a beloved professor and colleague at City University…