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From: New Criterion
Date: 19990301
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Franz Kafka

To the Editors:

I have just read Eric Ormsby's review of my translation of Kafka's novel The Castle (November 1998). As Mr. Ormsby himself notes, previous notices of my translation, including those by J. M. Coetzee (The New York Review of Books) and Robert Alter (The New Republic), have been largely positive. Of course, there is little consensus about literary translation--or for that matter about Franz Kafka--so Mr. Ormsby is perfectly entitled to his own preferences. However, he has no right to insinuate that there was "some surreptitious consultation" ...

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