Kundera & titles
Posted by Susan H on August 12, 1998 at 10:49:48:
In response to What's in a word, written by Jane on August 11, 1998 at 22:16:20
] Still, these books are glimpses into other places and ways of thinking, and when books are as good as "Unbearable Lightness of Being" then the translators are doing something right.
] Jane
On an entertaining side note, one of my professors was Kundera's translator for Unbearable Lightness & he said that Kundera wanted to call it "Karenin's Smile" in English because he was afraid that we American's wouldn't get his title--fortunately, Heim refused to change the title! (He just said, "Well, I'm not going to translate it if it's called 'Karenin's Smile.'")
Susan
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