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The concept of the mother tongue

Summary by TheTLS
J. M. Coetzee wrote The Pole (2023), a reimagining of Dante’s Vita Nuova, to challenge the global role of the English language. Mariana Dimópulos’s Spanish translation of the novella, El Polaco (TLS, December 2, 2022), came out the year before its anglophone incarnation, intended to act as the “original”. Any sub­sequent translations were to be done from this edition, and Dimópulos was encouraged to take liberties, such as rendering the characte…
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TheTLS broke the news in on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
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