Literary Retranslation in Context by Susanne M. Cadera Andrew Samuel Walsh

Author:Susanne M. Cadera,Andrew Samuel Walsh
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
Published: 2016-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

This report, compiled in the censorship file 1901, Catalogue Number 21/11056, dates back to 1956 and is accompanied by a copy of the novel in Italian in which the censor marks out the omissions, as well as the set of galley proofs that Seix-Barral sent to the Book Inspectorate with the corresponding amendments.

Although the publishing house Seix-Barral went on to make the relevant corrections, it decided to maintain the paragraphs on pages 183, 199, 210, 227, 385 and 399. For this reason, the Book Inspectorate responded to the publishing house refusing them permission to publish the novel as of 5 October 1955. Another letter from the publisher to the Book Inspectorate, dated 1 November 1955, is included below in which a request to keep the last three paragraphs of the novel for the following reasons was made:

Insofar as the ethical aspect of the issue is concerned, we would like to point out how the anthropological biologism reported in the final paragraphs – in an order of pure literary fiction– does not appear to dogmatically exclude the possibility of a spiritual conception, but in reality self-recants by ironically reaching negative conclusions (General Administration Archive, File 1901, Catalogue Number 21/11056).

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