AW: [SEELANGS] Brodsky: Gained in Translation

[FIEGUTH Rolf]

Dear SEELANGers,

whoever coined this formula is not to be praised for it. "gains in translation into any  language?". "Gains in comparison with the original?". I fear that the hidden sense of Damrosch´es aphorism is "World literature is writing that sounds like World literature in English translation" - but so we still do not know what World literature is or should be.
Best wishes

Rolf Fieguth


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list im Auftrag von Mitsu Numano
Gesendet: So 25.06.2006 06:14
An: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Betreff: Re: [SEELANGS] Brodsky: Gained in Translation
 
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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