At Words without Borders' Dispatches-weblog Michael Heyman writes about The Perils and Nonpereils of Literary Nonsense Translation, with Bengali writer Sukumar Ray a prime example.
There have been several translations of Sukumar Ray's work, with Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray reprinted in 2008 as Wordygurdyboom !; see the Puffin publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
There have been several translations of Sukumar Ray's work, with Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray reprinted in 2008 as Wordygurdyboom !; see the Puffin publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.