Kundera article (cont.)

[Alina Israeli]

I don't know these French translations nor Mr. Kundera's reasons for  
certifying them, but I'd like to open another can of worms:

Wouldn't some list members agree that Pasternak's translations are  
con-genius to the original and works of art in and of themselves  
(Shakespeare and Goethe, for ex)? The same could be said of  
Lozinsky's translations, of Cola Brugnon, for example. I could find a  
few more amazing translators: Rita Rajt-Kovaleva, Golyshev, Ljubimov  
and others, of course.

> If he wanted people to study Czech, he shouldn't have certified the  
> French translations of those early works as being of equal literary  
> value as the original. What an insult to the Czech language!


Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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Washington DC. 20016
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aisrael at american.edu




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