Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Lost in Translation

We had 15 participants for tonight's Zoom discussion of Albert Camus' The Plague, which I hope they all enjoyed as much as I did. One question that came up was about translations of the novel, and Matthew Zipf was kind enough to share a recent London Review of Books article titled "Pointing the Finger: Jacqueline Rose on The Plague." Matthew recommends reading both the article and the letters it discusses; together, they're a good starting point for analyzing the different translations.

On a much less exalted analytical plane, I just discovered a handy cheat sheet, I mean student guide, to the novel, courtesy of Shmoop.com.

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