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ohir on Nostr: > how his works have ever been accurately translated to English. Through hard work ...

> how his works have ever been accurately translated to English.

Through hard work and the tremendous effort of a large team of CIA translators, as the legend goes ;)

https://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is-a-communist-committee

In reality, by the bilingual Poles, mostly. Were the translations accurate? It's hard for me to say – I can read the original and I can also pick up on the subtext because I grew up behind the Iron Curtain.