Romanian Reception
Main approaches to Kafka’s work 1. Literary approaches in translations The first translations of Franz Kafka’s work in Romanian appeared in 1947 in ”Secolul XX” 287-288 in the translation of Paul Celan(edited by Paul Solomon). It was in 1966 when M. Märkel and Vasile Stirbu published ” The Country Doctor” (“Der Landarzt”) In 1966 Mihai Izbasescu translated the famous collection (at Fisher publishing house) of nine short stories: 1. “The Vedict”,2.The Methamorphosis, 3.The Country Doctor,4. "At the Gallery" 5. "Facing the law Eleven Sons, 6. "A Report to an Academy, 7.The Penal colony, 8."A Starvation Artist" The same year Petre Forna translated an “imperial message”and Ion Potopin translated “Cold and sturdy is the horizon”. In 1968 the reader was offered other translations which added new denotations and perspectives of interpretation for the Romanian reader. The first was “The Road Back Home” followed by the Bridge, Prometheus, ”The ...