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This Saturday, the 17th, they're having a fourth anniversary event in New York City, Why Retranslate the Classics ? at the Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, featuring translators Susan Bernofsky, Edith Grossman, and Damion Searls. Among their re-translations are Kafka's The Metamorphosis (Bernofsky), Don Quixote (Grossman), and -- the easiest one to justify -- Searls' forthcoming translation of Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries. That should be a great discussion.
This Saturday, the 17th, they're having a fourth anniversary event in New York City, Why Retranslate the Classics ? at the Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, featuring translators Susan Bernofsky, Edith Grossman, and Damion Searls. Among their re-translations are Kafka's The Metamorphosis (Bernofsky), Don Quixote (Grossman), and -- the easiest one to justify -- Searls' forthcoming translation of Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries. That should be a great discussion.