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Linguistic Slapstick, Brutal Joy, and Profane Parrots: 18 Translators on Translating Humor
the exact same question over and over so that it can be answered by a recording, instructs the reader: “Why don’t you just start with, ‘Can you tell me what the exact same question is?’” The reader replies: “That makes sense.” To render the artlessness of your fellow human beings, it takes a...
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The Watchlist: May 2019
| What Makes a City? by Park Seongwon, translated from the Korean by Chung Hwa Chang and Andrew James Keast | Fiction | 188 pages | ISBN 9781945680205 | US$16.00What the publisher says: "What Makes a City? provides the reader with an intelligent perspective on the strange culture of our times and a...
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An Interview with Sang Young Park
You know, like The Vegetarian. I’m trimming away at the four large chapters that create a complete picture at the very end.As to what it’s about . . . if I may be a bit pretentious here again, the key words would basically be queers and Catholicism, women, abortion, STDs, and economic class. I...
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