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[Ya Sam]

>
>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
>

Haven't seen the book, but I've heard that it's about a thousand pages, and 
the text is divided into three columns. So reading it should pose certain 
problems. Can you comment on that?

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