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The Human Translator’s (In)Visibility in Times of AI: An Self-Applied Experiment in Literary Translation

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The (in)visibility of the literary human translator’s work in the age of AI is discussed, and the interferences produced by machines are tapped into to tap into the impact on the translation process and product.

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