"What is essential? It's one of the great questions of life, and, as I've suggested, it's a question that crops up in other adaptations than artistic ones. The text is human society and the human self, in isolation or in groups, the essence to be preserved is a human essence, and the result is the pluralist, hybridised, mixed-up world in which we all now live."Salman Rushdie writes a brilliant essay on movie adaptations of novels in today's Guardian. It contains so much more than the technical and artistic challenges of translating. Well worth a read.
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