Brodsky: Gained in Translation

[Mitsu Numano]

Dear SEELANGers,
   I am also curious to know where Brodsky came up with such a formula.   I 
myself cannot recall reading such a statement in his essays.
   For your information, by the way, that is precisely what David Damrosch 
says about "world literature" in his brilliant book "What is World 
Literature"(Princeton UP, 2003):  "World literature is writing that gains in 
translation"(p.281) (although Damrosch does not refer to Brodsky in his 
book).

Mitsuyoshi Numano
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0033 Japan

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