In Animal Farm, George Orwell’s brilliant satire of the 1917 Russian Revolution, a farmyard of animals overthrow their oppressive human master only to end up being oppressed by a new ruling class of pigs—tyrannical czars essentially being replaced by tyrannical comrades. As one of the first novels to be used as Cold War propaganda, Animal Farm’s early translations included those into Ukrainian and Telugu. And though the provenance of these two translations couldn’t be more dissimilar, the stories of how they were produced provide an excellent snapshot of the tangled political anxieties of a freshly post-colonial, post-war world that had begun to freeze into the two camps of the Cold War.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:35:53 +0000
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