01-03-13

Is Kafka kafkaesque?

We've had a discussion on this before: Translating Kafka / Kafka auf Englisch (see the comments too).

Now, in a post on the more serious subject of Shhh... - The Justice and Security Bill, introducing secret hearings in the UK, Adam Wagner links to a video on the same topic.

Meanwhile, Katy at love german books, in Michelle Woods on Re-Translating Kafka, writes about translating Kafka and Michelle Woods' forthcoming book on translating Kafka, with a link to an interview with Michelle Woods, among other things about helping American students to understand the humour in Kafka (and I didn't realize David Foster Wallace, whose magnum opus I threw away after reading it, taught Kafka).

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Totally off-topic as regards this blog entry, and perhaps not even within the bounds of your blog at all, but I found this account of a mistrial declared in the UK interesting: Link

Apologies for the diversion and no worries if you delete this.

#1 Eugene Seidel on 2013-03-01 22:22 (Reply)

This has been in the news for many days now, and the Daily Mail has certainly shamed itself on this case more recently. I hope you have been following the continuation. Vicky Price is claimed to have schemed with a judge - a part-time recorder, which usually means a barrister who is trying out a judicial post. This woman was described by the Mail as something like 'UK's top judge' but they have changed the headline so I can't reconstruct it.

I haven't read this article, but I tend to think that the jurors' questions should have been answered. The newspapers were full of 'Should jury trials be abolished?'-type stories. This is the article I prefer - see remarks at bottom about the length of the judge's sentences - but you are free to disagree! (And agree this is a bit off topic for this blog)

#1.1 MM (Homepage) on 2013-03-01 22:42 (Reply)

Actually, it's still here - I find the headline misleading, but I'm not sure the later 'high-profile' was there originally:

Britain's top black woman judge

#1.1.1 MM (Homepage) on 2013-03-01 22:59 (Reply)

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