Tag: literature
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A novel so good, people were afraid to translate it
The New Yorker has a very interesting piece about this Irish novel, which Irish Gaelic speakers have revered for nearly 70 years, to the point of it never having been translated. Until now. Suddenly, within the past year, two translations have been published. Expectations are sky-high. Let the debate and analysis begin.
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The Globalization of Literature
In an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times, Benjamin Moser discusses the importance of promoting non-English authors, in an English-dominated global economy. He brings up a number of good points about how works written in English not only enjoy greater readership in English-speaking countries, but they are the most commonly translated books in other…