'Translationese' " What Japan's Most Important Modern Novelists Have In Common by Artsjournal1

Haruki Murakami famously wrote his first novel in English and then translated it into his mother tongue himself, resulting in a plainspoken, "neutral" (his word) style far removed from standard literary Japanese. Several critics referred to that style as "translationese." Masatsugu Ono (both a translator and a novelist himself) makes the case that Murakami, Kenzaburo […]

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