This book takes the case of Gregory Rabassa translator into English of such canonical novels as Garca Mrquezs Cien aos de soledad and Cortzars Rayuela. In the chapters the author historicizes the translators practice by investigating Rabassas ideas about translation and his own practice the relationship between Rabassa and his authors and the circulation and reception of Rabassas translations especially of the works of the socalled Latin American Boom. By critically engaging Rabassa as a translating subject this book affirms the translators active role in shaping literary traditions and in producing texts and knowledge. Rabassa emerges as an active subject in the interAmerican literary exchange an agent bound to history and to the forces involved in the production of culture.