Translation choices can shift a book’s entire emotional register

Evidence

I first read Fanon’s masterwork as a youth in Iran in the 1970s. Post-e Siyah, Suratak-ha-ye Sefid still sounds more elegiac to my ears than Black Skin, White Masks, even more so than its French title, Beau Noire, Masques Blanc. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 134

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader debate on translation fidelity vs. effect, and to how a work lands differently in each language it crosses.