Volume 15, Number 4 · September 3, 1970
Lame Shadows
By W.H. Auden
Tonio Kröger and Other Stories
by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke
Bantam, 256 pp., $1.25 (paper)
Anyone who offers a fresh translation of a prose work—poetry is another matter—is in duty bound to justify his undertaking by explaining why he thinks that earlier versions are unsatisfactory, a task which can only be congenial to the malicious. Dr. Luke has felt, quite rightly, obliged to cite some of the errors made by Mrs. Lowe-Porter, and anybody who knows German will agree with him that many of these are serious. But he does so with obvious reluctance and concludes by paying her a just tribute.
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