At the conference “Japan” in Communist Europe organized by the University of Tokyo, Alari Allik gave a presentation on the reception of Kōbō Abe in the Soviet Union and Estonia. Using Abe’s work Inter Ice Age 4 as an example, Allik demonstrated how centrally directed translation activity operated during the Soviet era and where there was room for individual interpretation.
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