An Unsolved Mystery: The Paragraphs Omitted from Edogawa Ranpo’s “The Human Chair”

A comparison between a translation and its original sends the author on a quest to explain a seeming discrepancy between the two versions. Edogawa Ranpo’s 1925 story “Ningen isu” contains four paragraphs that have been silently omitted from James B. Harris’s 1956 translation, “The Human Chair.” The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott Mehl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2022-09-01
Series:Japanese Language and Literature
Online Access:http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/266