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In einer eMail vom 08.08.2005 20:50:07 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt  
takoitov at hotmail.com:

Have you  read Arno Schmidt's 'Zettels Traum'? what do you make of 
it? Is it really  untranslatable?



I would say: yes. In comparison to "Zettels Traum" is f. e. "Finnegans  Wake" 
rather easy to read. It's not only the content, but the typeface in  "Zettels 
Traum" that you also have to "translate". I would say this is nearly  
impossible. It's a kind of "writing as painting".  

kwp

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