So good to see a big-up of the Muirs (who appear throughout Fair).
Also, this basically summarises current Translation Studies: "Now tenured academics with hefty grants can bask in the celebrity of Kafka & pass judgment on the near-penniless strivers who first made him known."
Jen Calleja
“The Muirs gave Kafka a distinctive voice in English for half a century: fluent, formal, enigmatic and mesmeric” – but a new, award-winning study of Kafka’s translators has almost completely erased their work from literary history, says Boyd Tonkin
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For half a century, Edwin and Willa Muir's translations were how the Anglophone world read Kafka. A prize-winning study of his translators barely registers their contribution.
