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Irodalom Bábelben
Literature in the Tower of Babel

Author(s): Eszter Benő
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: literature; literary translation; Hungarian online literary anthology; linguistic diversity; multilingual portal

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an online multidimensional-multilingual anthology „Hungarians in the Tower of Babel” specially created for translators and translations. The text corpus consists of thousands of Hungarian literary texts and their translations into 24 languages, as well as of literary texts written in foreign languages and their Hungarian translations. (Among the authors translated into Hungarians 85 are Nobel Prize winners). The anthology is displaying in parallel the original and the translated works. The author appraises the usability, multimediality and openness of the text corpus and makes some critical remarks concerning the weak points of the anthology.

  • Issue Year: LXXIX/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 112-117
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Hungarian