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EXAMINING TEXT AND AUTHORSHIP IN What Remains of Christa Wolf? TRANSLATION CAROLINE SUMMERS Examining Text and Authorship in Translation Caroline Summers Examining Text and Authorship in Translation What Remains of Christa Wolf? Caroline Summers University of Leeds Derby, United Kingdom ISBN 978-3-319-40182-9 ISBN 978-3-319-40183-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40183-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016961254 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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Cover design by Samantha Johnson Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Acknowledgements The experience of writing this book has been an exhilarating and a challenging one and was made possible by the support of a number of individuals and institutions. The book is a revised version of my PhD, submitted to the University of Manchester in 2013, and as such owes much to the inspirational and enthusiastic guidance of my supervisors, Dr Matthew Philpotts and Professor Mona Baker. I am also indebted to Professor Stephen Parker and Dr Morven Beaton-Thome for their insights and suggestions over the course of the PhD and to Professor Stuart Taberner for sound advice and wise words as the book was being prepared for publication. The research for this study was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, without whose generosity it would have been impos- sible for me to undertake the project, and who also supported my very fruitful research trip to Berlin. Much gratitude is also due to the Association of German Studies for financial assistance with my research trip to New York Public Library. I am thankful to members of staff at the Akademie der Künste, New York Public Library and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin for their assistance during and after my visits to the archives. Thanks are also due to Karen Malpede, Anna Kuhn and Helen Fehervary for their responses to my inquiries and their encouraging comments. I am obliged to Suhrkamp, FSG and UCP for permission to quote textual and archival material and to reproduce book cover images and to Getty v vi Acknowledgements Images and Magnum Photos for the permission to reproduce photo- graphs by Tom Stoddart and Peter Marlow. Finally, I would also like to thank my family, who are a constant source of support and encouragement. I am especially grateful to my parents for their confidence in me and to Sam for inexhaustible supplies of good humour and common sense that have helped to steady me through many a wobbly moment. © Caroline Summers, 2016 Material from the Introduction and Chaps. 1, 3 and 4 first appeared in ‘What Remains: The Institutional Reframing of Authorship in Translated Peritexts’, in Paratext in Translation, ed. Valerie Pellatt (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013). Published here with the permis- sion of Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Permissions The following have been reprinted with permission: Marlow, Peter (photographer) (1980) Living in the Shadow of the Wall [photograph], courtesy of Magnum Photos. Printed by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC: Excerpts from unpublished letters written by Roger Straus to Christa Wolf, Hermann Kant, and Dietrich von Boetticher from 1969–1988. Copyright © 2017 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Archived in Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Reprinted by permission of Suhrkamp Verlag: Extracts from Christa Wolf, Nachdenken über Christa T. Roman. First publication by Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, 1968. © Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2007. All rights reserved by and controlled through Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC: Approx. 1370 words (excerpts as specified) from THE QUEST FOR CHRISTA T. Acknowledgements vii by Christa Wolf, translated by Christopher Middleton. English translation copyright © 1970 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC: Jacket design by Jacqueline Schuman from CASSANDRA by Christa Wolf, trans- lated by Jan van Heurck. Cover design © 1984 by Jacqueline Schuman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC: Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat from WHAT REMAINS AND OTHER STORIES by Christa Wolf, translated by Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian. Jacket design © by Cynthia Krupat. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press: Jacket design by Toni Ellis and illustration by Adam McCauley from WHAT REMAINS AND OTHER STORIES, by Christa Wolf, translated by Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian. Jacket design © by Toni Ellis and illustration © by Adam McCauley. Stoddart, Tom (photographer). (1990). Marital Aid [photograph]. Retrieved from: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/85272996. Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Understanding Translated Authorship 23 3 The Subjective Narrator: Nachdenken über Christa T. 59 4 The Author as Feminist: Kassandra 113 5 Politics, Morality and Aesthetics: Two Translations of Was bleibt 161 6 Conclusion: What Remains? 217 Bibliography 229 Index 253 ix List of Abbreviations Christa Wolf, Werke Unless otherwise stated, all quotations from Wolf’s German texts will be given as volume and page numbers from the collected edition of her Werke. Christa Wolf: Werkausgabe in 13 Bänden (1999–2003) edited by Sonja Hilzinger, Munich: Luchterhand. English Translations of Wolf’s Texts: Editions Cited AD The Author’s Dimension: Selected Essays (1993) translated by Jan van Heurck, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. C Cassandra. A Novel and Four Essays (1984) translated by Jan van Heurck, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. GR ‘What Remains’ (1990) translated by Martin Chalmers, Granta 33: 141–158. MC A Model Childhood (1980) translated by Ursule Molinaro and Hedwig Rappolt, Virago Modern Classics edition (1995), London: Virago. xi xii List of Abbreviations Q The Quest for Christa T. (1970) translated by Christopher Middleton, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. WR What Remains and Other Stories (1993) translated by Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian, 1995 edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Archival Sources AAV Archiv des Aufbau-Verlags, Handschriften, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preußischer Kulturbesitz. ADK Christa-Wolf-Archiv, Literaturarchiv, Akademie der Künste, Berlin. NYPL Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
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