• charles

  

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  Re: New York Times Article on de Beauvoir

  Sun, August 22, 2004 - 8:11 AM

  I suppose we could email Knopf and request they release the rights if they won't retranslate. Doubtful of course. But then, enough bad press might help.

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• • Jessica

    

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    Re: New York Times Article on de Beauvoir

    Sun, August 22, 2004 - 9:24 AM

    I have a special fondness for emailing campaigns.

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  • • Loures

      

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      Re: New York Times Article on de Beauvoir

      Sun, August 22, 2004 - 10:56 AM

      Lets get this one organized Jessica. De Beauvior is an important thinker and shaped my views when I read her as a young woman. I am free because I read the post-war french writers. I would want young women to have the same benefits I had.

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    • • barnaby

        

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        Re: New York Times Article on de Beauvoir

        Mon, August 23, 2004 - 5:31 PM

        Shocking and disappointing. I believe it was Nabokov who likened translation to bringing in the head of a text on a platter.
        
        I wish this was the exception, rather than the rule. I remember comparing Gadamer's Truth and Method with the original German in a seminar, and finding some truly staggering omissions.

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