Robert Alter

Robert Alter

Robert Bernard Alter (born 1935) is an American professor of Hebrew language and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.

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    “If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be “To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one’s own writings in translation.””
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)