I always wonder about this too. Sometimes you get lucky and the original author translates it themselves (Waiting for Godot) or there&#x27;s a translation that&#x27;s endorsed by the author. But other times the best you can get is a widely-accepted translation, and even that&#x27;s not always enough to assuage any fears that you&#x27;re missing sometime.<p>I do think it&#x27;s funny when the translator makes a point of shitting on other translations in the foreword. I think the version of Aristotle&#x27;s Politics I read in college did that.