When Dante Gabriel Rossetti read the novel Wuthering Heights, he wrote to a friend: "The action takes place in Hell, but the places, I don’t know why, have English names.
That is from Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions.
Wuthering Heights
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In context here:
Borges liked to put real quotes on fictional people and false quotes on real people.
And perhaps he quoted it by memory so the translator is being faithfull to Borges who wrote it that way or translated it that way. The Borges translator need not to be faitfull to Rossetti
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Is it realistic? we should think more about the book then write what’s your idea
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