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The old Barny

By Andrus Kivirähk
ELM 1/2002
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November 1stJust before noon, the sun put in a brief appearance. For several weeks now, such a miracle had not taken place; since the begin...

The German Verdict

By Cornelius Hasselblatt
ELM 1/2002
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Every good translation is a new verbalisation of content or of amessage and is not the simple transposition of words from onelanguage to an...

Rehepapp: the beauty of ugliness

By Kaisu Lahikainen
ELM 1/2002
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I started to read this novel on a long train journey, and I nearly missed my station. The initial impression was really weird: I felt almos...

Old Barny - or, is humour translatable?

By Eric Dickens
ELM 1/2002
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Humour doesn’t always travel well. So, let me be frank, I am not on the same wavelength as Rehepapp (title translated variously as Old Barn...

Edibles

By Turid Farbregd
ELM1/2002
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Andrus Kivirähk: The Old Barny. Tallinn 2000. 200 ppAre you one of those who devour literature voraciously, like a horse? And soap like a c...