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Translator’s scratching

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In his last book, The drowned and the saved1, Primo Levi tells how, in occasion of the German edition of If this is a man2, he had to face a problem regarding its translation.
Gounan, a French Jew of Polish origin, addressed Kraus, an Hungarian, with an expression that sounded strange and unacceptable to the German [...]

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