A Case of Mistaken Identity in Translation: “Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat” in Dazai Osamu’s Novel No Longer Human
This article explores the source and the meaning of the eleven quatrains quoted by modern Japanese writer Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) in his last complete novel, Ningen shikkaku (No Longer Human, 1948). Although dubbed as “rubaiyat”, which would indicate that they are translations of classical Persian p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sciendo
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2021-0016 |