Who Wrote This English? Translation, Attribution, and the Limits of Literary Reviewing

We are no longer dealing only with the old problem of the invisible translator; sometimes the translator is perfectly visible. The name is on the cover, in the bibliographical information and beneath the title of the review; what disappears is something subtler: the translator’s relation to the qualities criticism then proceeds to judge. If a reviewer calls the English supple or funny, or admires its lyricism, who has produced those effects?