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The Great Untranslated: Ostatnia powieść (The Last Novel) by Teodor Parnicki

Posted on October 8, 2018 by

In world literature there is a special category: the Great Unfinished Novel. It comprises such early-20th century classics as Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities, Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk, Franz Kafka’s The Castle, and, from more recent times:  Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting … Continue reading →

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The Great Untranslated: Pałuba by Karol Irzykowski

Posted on March 19, 2018 by

In his introduction to Celina Wieniewska’s translation of Bruno Schulz’s short-story collection The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories, literary scholar and translator David A. Goldfarb dwells on the difficulties posed by the polysemy of the Polish word pałuba and mentions in … Continue reading →

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