Abstract
Aragon’s La Mise à Mort (1965) was translated for the first time in Spain in 1969, while the country was still under the Francoist dictatorship. Even though the translated work has several errors, it received a positive review from the progressive magazine Triunfo and from the conservative newspaper ABC. This leads us to reflect on the traditional view of “good” and “bad” translations as well as the importance of translated works within the cultural and literary systems that host them