Wednesday 27 May 2009

funny germans 2: donald duck

This is a really interesting story from Light Reading over there on the right about how the translator of Germany's Donald Duck gave the Germans a more considerable literary and comic achievement than the rest of us enjoyed. German Donald quotes from the classics and sub-textualises about politics. Telling quotation from the piece: 'many Germans credit him with having initiated them into the language of the literary classics.'

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