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ONE OF THE biggest problems in our politics is that people don't think for themselves. We let radio and television hosts, pundits and politicians tell us what to believe. And one of the biggest problems in our arts is that people don't enjoy for
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China Photos/Getty Images After spending eight years translating the first third of James Joyce 's famously opaque novel Finnegans Wake into Chinese, Dai Congrong assumed it was a labour of love rather than money. The book's language is thick with
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Wang Weisong, chief editor of the Shanghai company that published the first Chinese translation of the Joyce classic, coyly said at a recent forum in Shanghai that he wasn't expecting any success for the book, but that the modest initial run of 8,000
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Chinese translation of James Joyce becomes best-seller The new translation has been heavily promoted in Shanghai and Beijing A Chinese version of James Joyce's novel Finnegan's Wake, which took eight years to translate, has become a surprising hit in
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Forget sock puppet reviews writers are now actively soliciting bad Amazon reviews. After his novel Short Bus got an especially excoriating Amazon write-up, Brian Allen Carr decided that rather than getting angry, he'd run with the bad press. The
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The Chinese version is no easier to read than the original, the loyal-minded translator assures, but James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" has still sold out its initial run in China. Wang Weisong, chief editor of the Shanghai company that published the
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China has banned the iconic images of Communist leader Chairman Mao from an exhibition of Andy Warhol's work which is travelling the country...Big surprise the first mainland Chinese translation has proved to be a sweeping success, with the initial
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Superman is growing an underwater beard and getting angsty, Iron Man is getting his soul crushed, and Star Trek wants you to know that it's going into darkness so badly, they put that in the title . So if you're planning to film an epic story about a
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Finnegans Wake has defeated me, although guilt has driven me to dip into it over the decades. I read Ulysses in a little octagonal house on Omey Island in 1976, but got disenchanted and disheartened at the entrance to Nighttown. I have gone back to
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It includes more than 200 illustrations which give a real sense of the exquisite glory of the original.' For Christmas 1922, James Joyce sent a gift to his main benefactor and supporter, Harriet Shaw Weaver. It was a facsimile of some pages of the
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