Copyright of I burn Paris

[Adam Siegel]

Thanks for letting

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Adam Siegel
Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Librarian
Peter J. Shields Library
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University of California, Davis
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Bora Chung wrote:

> Update:
> 1. The Polish copyright law says, as far as I understand, that the copyright is
> valid for 70 years after the work was published. So I think I can translate the
> 1929 and/or the 1931 version. The 1931 version is complete with all three parts
> and I haven't found any big difference between this one and the 1974 Czytelnik
> edition.
>
> 2. 1929 and 1931 editions have the same preface written by Juliusz Kaden-
> Bandrowski. In fact they look identical, except that the 1929 edition is
> incomplete and the 1931 edition is complete. I wonder how that happened.
>
> 3.The first page of 1931 version says the story was originally published for
> the first time in French in installments. That doesn't mean it was originally
> written in French, though. If there was a translater from Polish to French, I
> wonder who that was, just out of curiousity.
>
> 4. Nothing about T. Ordon or the Russian translater so far. In fact the preface
> to the 1930 Russian version is quite interesting but it's anonymous.
>
> Bora Chung
> Slavic department
> Indiana University
> bochung at indiana.edu
>
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