Lance Husson’s book on translation critique seeks to explore ways in which a literary text can be examined as a translation, not primarily to judge it, but to understand the place of the relational text. In essence by examining the interpretive potential of the translation choices that have been made.

After examining the theoretical aspects of translation criticism, Husson offers a way to analyze the original versions and their translations at three different levels. Tools for describing translation choices and their potential effects are provided and are used in two collections: Madame Bovary Flaubert and six English translations, and Emma Austen with three French translations. The results of the analyzes are used to construct a hypothesis about each translation that is classified according to two measurement scales, one distinguishing between “fair” and “false” interpretations and the other between “divergent similarity” and “relative divergence”. , Radical divergence and adaptation.