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Censorship, Metamorphosis: Why We Keep Retranslating Our Literary Classics

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Post date March 2, 2024

Open books. Patrick Tomasso/UNSPLASH

The phenomenon of retranslation is both paradoxical and inherent in every culture but it’s also a true source of vitality for literature, as well as pleasure for the readers.

Tags book, books, classics, culture, interpretation, language, literary classics, literature, publishing house, rewriting, translating, translation, translator, writing

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Kafka And Dostoevsky: Was ‘The Trial’ A Hidden Rewriting Of ‘Crime And Punishment’?

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Post date December 20, 2022

Franz Kafka's statue in Prague Aziz Karimov/Pacific Press/ZUMA

A Colombian student of Franz Kafka insists works by the 20th century Czech author, like The Trial, are so close to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as to be versions of it — creating potential trouble for European publishing houses.

Tags author, crime and punishment, dostoyevsky, franz kafka, inspiration, literature, rewriting, the trial

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