Arno Schmidt

There is a brilliant Japanese translation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake . We wondered what will happen when the Japanese text is re-translated back into English. We gave Didi Hirokawa page 109. She...

We had a plan: we would reveal Finnegans Wake as, yes, a secret agent of language. A retranslation of a Japanese translation of the original text would do the trick. At least, that's what we expected.