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McSweeney's #42 (2013)

by Adam Thirlwell(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1936365774 (ISBN13: 9781936365777)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

McSweeney's

series

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

review 1: The 42nd issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a fascinating experiment in the art of translation. Taking twelve pieces of short fiction and sending them through various translations (English to French to English to Chinese to English again - for one example) shows how much art and license must be taken for a translation to be faithful, not just to the meaning of a story, but to the effect on its readers. Really outstanding issue.
review 2: Another fine issue of what has to be the most interesting literary journal being published today. As others have noted, the theme of this issue is translation, as a series of stories are translated into a number of languages, with each translator only getting the translation that came immediately before it--like a child... moreren's game of telephone. The results are pretty fascinating, even if I could only read the English versions ( I limped my way through a couple of the Spanish variations). While it was interesting to see how some of the writers really pushed their translations more toward adaptations, it was even more fascinating to see two English writers produce very similar translations even though each had received the story in a different language than what the other was working from. less

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