R: [SEELANGS] question

[Luciano Di Cocco]

Translations from translations for Japanese and others not commonly studied
languages were very common in Italy until a few years ago. Some still exist,
for example this one:
http://www.scanner.it/libri/mishima1872.php
Starting from the eighties the majority of Japanese authors are translated
directly from Japanese, but still translations from translation do
occasionally appear, especially for "difficult" authors, as the Kyoto school
of philosophy.

As far as I know this didn't happen for Russian. I have never seen a Russian
author translated in Italian from a language different from Russian, but I
may be wrong.

Regards
Luciano Di Cocco

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] Per conto di Katz, Michael R.
> Inviato: sabato 30 ottobre 2010 19:01
> A: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Oggetto: [SEELANGS] question
> 
> Dear colleagues:
> 
> Larry Venuti (Temple University) has written to my colleague and friend
> in Japanese Studies at Middlebury to ask how influential were the
> English translations of the trio (Tanizaki, Kawabata, Mishima) in
> stimulating interest in these writers and sending the US-made canon
> abroad? Did these translations drive translations of modern Japanese
> fiction into other languages? Were the English versions themselves
> translated into other languages?
> 
> This last question particularly interests him ost, but he's not sure
> how to research it. The databases he's looked at do not indicate that a
> translation may have been not directly from Japanese but through an
> intermediate language.
> 
> I am wondering if anyone has ideas as to how one could discover whether
> the Russian versions of these authors' works were translated from
> Japanese, or from an intermediate language.
> 
> Please reply to me offline with your suggestions.
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> Michael Katz
> mkatz at middlebury.edu
> 
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