Anna Clark: My Top 5 World Lit Longreads of 2011
Anna Clark is a journalist and the editor of the literary blog Isak.
安娜·克拉克 (Anna Clark) 是一名记者，也是文学博客 Isak 的编辑。
(See more stories on her Longreads page.)
（在她的长读页面上查看更多故事。）
The infamous 3% statistic points to the percentage of publications each year in the U.S. that are translated into English.
臭名昭著的 3% 统计数据指出了美国每年被翻译成英文的出版物的百分比。
But even that number is inflated, as it includes technical material — manuals, guides, instructions — and new editions of canonized authors like Leo Tolstoy and Plato.
但即使这个数字也被夸大了，因为它包括技术材料——手册、指南、说明——以及列夫·托尔斯泰和柏拉图等经典作家的新版本。
American readers interested in the full-throated energy of contemporary world literature, of global book culture beyond their particular location and language, have limited options.
对当代世界文学和全球图书文化的全部能量感兴趣的美国读者，除了他们特定的地点和语言之外，他们的选择有限。
Publishers suggest that literature in translation doesn’t sell — excepting a certain Swedish novelist called Stieg, of course — but my thinking is that readers like good things to read, wherever they come from.
出版商认为翻译文学卖不出去——当然，除了一位名叫斯蒂格的瑞典小说家——但我的想法是，读者喜欢阅读好东西，无论它们来自哪里。
Readers are a curious sort.
读者是一群好奇的人。
I am ignited by literature of the world.
我被世界文学所点燃。
I am fascinated by the stories and styles that come from different places.
我对来自不同地方的故事和风格着迷。
My Top 5 Longreads shouldn’t be considered a *best* list; rather, a cultivated selection of the year’s most interesting reading on international literature, translation, and storytelling.
我的前 5 篇长读作品不应该被视为“最佳”列表；相反，这是精心挑选的年度最有趣的国际文学、翻译和讲故事读物。
But this conversation isn’t finished; there is more to be said.
但这次谈话还没有结束；还有更多要说的。
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The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami by Sam Anderson — New York Times
山姆·安德森《村上春树的激烈想象力》——《纽约时报》
I prepared for my first-ever trip to Japan, this summer, almost entirely by immersing myself in the work of Haruki Murakami.
今年夏天，我几乎完全沉浸在村上春树的作品中，为我的第一次日本之旅做准备。
This turned out to be a horrible idea.
事实证明这是一个可怕的想法。
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The Joyful Side of Translation by Adam Thirlwell — The New York Times
亚当·瑟尔韦尔的《翻译的快乐的一面》——《纽约时报》
The theory of translation is very rarely — how to put this?
翻译理论很少——怎么说呢？
— comical.
——滑稽。
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3.
Who Owns Kafka?
谁拥有卡夫卡？
by Judith Butler — London Review of Books
作者：朱迪思·巴特勒 — 伦敦书评
An ongoing trial in Tel Aviv is set to determine who will have stewardship of several boxes of Kafka’s original writings, including primary drafts of his published works, currently stored in Zurich and Tel Aviv.
特拉维夫正在进行的一项审判将确定谁将负责管理卡夫卡的几箱原创作品，其中包括目前存放在苏黎世和特拉维夫的已出版作品的初稿。
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Arabic and Hebrew: The Politics of Literary Translation by Olivia Snaije — Publishing Perspectives
阿拉伯语和希伯来语：文学翻译的政治 作者：Olivia Snaije — Publishing Perspectives
Today, the 60-plus year conflict between Israel and Arab countries has impacted heavily on translations between the two Semitic languages, which are now viewed by many with mutual suspicion and distrust.
如今，以色列和阿拉伯国家之间长达 60 多年的冲突对这两种闪米特语言之间的翻译产生了严重影响，许多人现在对这两种语言都抱有相互怀疑和不信任的态度。
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These Infantile Times by Jessa Crispin — Kirkus Reviews
《这些婴儿时代》作者：Jessa Crispin — Kirkus Reviews
Crispin interviews Dubravka Ugresic about her new essay collection, Karaoke Culture.
Crispin 采访了 Dubravka Ugresic，谈论她的新散文集《卡拉 OK 文化》。
Discussed: the author’s relationship to pop culture and how a Hemingway lookalike contest fits into the same essay as the war criminal Radovan Karadžic.
讨论：作者与流行文化的关系，以及一场酷似海明威的比赛如何融入与战犯拉多万·卡拉季奇的同一篇文章中。