Translating Milan Kundera

by Michelle Woods

Translating Milan Kundera uses new archival research to view the wider cultural scope of the translation issue involving the controversies surrounding Kundera’s translated novels. It focuses on the language of the novels, Kundera’s ‘lost’ works, writing as translation, interpretation, exile, censorship and the social responses to translated fiction in the Anglophone world.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Nipuni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Came into the possession of a copy of Monology and have been using my brother-in-law to translate the poems, which feels sacrilegious…