Yoko Tawada on Ideograms and Dostoevsky
For all its noise, Facebook can still be a great way of keeping up with what your friends are working on. For instance, over the weekend, Susan Bernofsky posted about a Yoko Tawada she recently translated for the “Japan Focus” issue of the“Asian-Pacific Journal.”:http://japanfocus.org/ The article ...
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Dostoevsky in 21st Century Japan
Literary Saloon commented on this earlier, but apparently the new translation of The Brothers Karamazov is a bit hit in Japan. Why? At a lecture in Tokyo in August, Kameyama explored possible reasons for the boom, saying that “Karamazov” depicts the “humble existence” of human beings who find ...
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