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 o
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."