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Conrad, whose writings Zdzisław Najder has described as verging on "auto-translation" from Conrad's Polish and French linguistic personae, advised his niece and Polish translator Aniela Zagórska: "on't trouble to be too scrupulous... I may tell you (in French) that in my opinion il vaut mieux interpréter que traduire... Il s'agit donc de trouver les équivalents. Et là, ma chère, je vous prie laissez vous guider plutôt par votre tempérament que par une conscience sévère... " Conrad advised another translator that the prime requisite for a good translation is that it be "idiomatic". "For in the idiom is the clearness of a language and the language's force and its picturesqueness—by which last I mean the picture-producing power of arranged words." Conrad thought C.K. Scott Moncrieff 's English translation of Marcel Proust 's À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time —or, in Scott Moncrieff's rendering, Remembrance of Things Past) to be preferable to the French original.
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