A New Approach to Editing Kafka’s Der Process: Creating a Base Text for Japanese Translation
The existing translations of Kafka’s Der Process in Japan present a simplified reading text, even when they claim to provide something more extensive. One reason why Japanese translations of the scholarly editions have not been attempted in earnest is that it is not possible to adequately translate...
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2024
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| Zusammenfassung: | The existing translations of Kafka’s Der Process in Japan present a simplified reading text, even when they claim to provide something more extensive. One reason why Japanese translations of the scholarly editions have not been attempted in earnest is that it is not possible to adequately translate some of the variants of the German text into Japanese.In this article I present some features of a new edition of Der Process that will give greater insight into Kafka’s writing process. More specifically, I propose an edition that attempts to convey Kafka’s écriture, highlighting the fragmentary and unfinished nature of his texts. Additionally, this edition will be translatable into Japanese and be aimed at a non-specialist audience.I address some of the difficulties that such an edition would encounter. The principal difficulty is to decide what material should be included. Previous editions have been guided by different ideals, either the ideal of a finished narrative work or the ideal of fidelity to the manuscripts. Neither of these ideals are sufficient for an edition focused on the writing process itself. I argue that material that has traditionally been considered extraneous should be included.Finally, I outline a new approach to editing, I call ’third generation editing’, that does not aim to establish a canonical edition, but rather to produce alternative ways of editing Kafka. |
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