Parti pris d’une retraduction néerlandaise de Du côté de chez Swann (II) Questions de syntaxe

At the syntactic level, how to do justice to the length and the particular rhythmic tension of Proust’s sentences in a language like Dutch, which is unaccommodating to this kind of syntactical complexity? Stylistic dilemmas are situated at the heart of the work of rewriting, as style is a question “not of technique, but of vision”.