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Article: Albert Russo and South Africa.(South African Literature in Transition)
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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The more our world shrinks, the more fragmented, in some respects, becomes our knowledge of the literatures of other nations. It now takes but three hours and a bit to travel by rail from the Gate du Nord in Paris to Waterloo Station in London; it now takes a bit less than four hours by air (Concorde) to fly from New York to London. Yet, whatever the economic or other explanations may be, the exasperating fact remains that translations of works from other languages into English are proportionately fewer than ever before.
Moreover, this unSanforized shrinkage of our world is naturally paralleled by increasing numbers of people living out their lives in countries of ...