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Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fiction
Edited by Klaus Kaindl and Karlheinz Spitzl
[Benjamins Translation Library 110] 2014
► pp. 299–314

Translation as a source of humor

Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated/Alles ist erleuchtet

Published online: 28 January 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.110.21kol
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