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Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure

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Kafka at PG:
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Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Vienna of 1920 was not the cosmopolitan Vienna of today. The Great War was over, causing the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If one wasn’t killed by the brutal warfare, then the 1918 Spani…
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Great soirée yesterday on the #CEATL literary #translators conference with the Bulgarian author Georgi #Gospodinov and 5 of his translators. Among other things the talked about the difficulties of translators the Bulgarian term & concept of #tuga. Some aspects are mentioned here:
newyorker.com/books/page-turne…
Anybody here on the #conference I should meet in person?
#xl8 #literature

The Bulgarian Sadness of Georgi Gospodinov

Chronicling everyday life in Bulgaria means trying to communicate Bulgarian “sadness,” which is as much a linguistic as a metaphysical dilemma.
Garth Greenwell (The New Yorker)
#conference #literature #xl8 #translators #ceatl #Gospodinov #tuga

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