Natsume Soseki
Barry Hill reviews 'Kokoro' by Natsume Soseki, translated by Meredith McKinney
Barry Hill
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Australia is supposed to have a knowing relationship with East Asia, but the embarrassing truth we keep under wraps is that you can count on one hand the number of first-class translators we have produced. There are no doubt complex cultural reasons for this, but it is hard to escape the impression that many academics teaching Chinese and Japanese have not been earning their keep.
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Published in
October 2011, no. 335