An essay about works of this type includes the humorous suggestion that since we are used to "thinking of an expression like 2 = 2 as correct, we do not realize that the second 2 is obviously a hair younger than the first", and is titled "No Two Snowflakes Are Alike."
An essay about works of this type includes the humorous suggestion that since we are used to "thinking of an expression like 2 = 2 as correct, we do not realize that the second 2 is obviously a hair younger than the first", and is titled "No Two Snowflakes Are Alike." The PEN American center triennially gives a medal for this sort of work; its winners have included Burton Watson and Ralph Manheim. This kind of work is called "the secret metaphor of all Â… communication" in a book by Edith Grossman, though George Steiner argues that they overcome a "shared secrecy" in After Babel. Gregory Rabassa produced multiple works of this type, including one that begins by describing "that distant afternoon when [a certain character's] father took him to discover ice." For 10 points, name this kind of work, one example of which is the English- language edition of 100 Years of Solitude
An essay about works of this type includes the humorous suggestion that since we are used to "thinking of an expression like 2 = 2 as correct, we do not realize that the second 2 is obviously a hair younger than the first", and is titled "No Two Snowflakes Are Alike."
translations [accept equivalent answers involving such as  translated works; accept more specific answers such as Spanish  translations]