Ernest Maltravers
novel by Lytton
Also known as: “Karyū shunwa”
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translation into Japanese
- In Japanese literature: Introduction of Western literature
…of a European novel was Ernest Maltravers, by the British novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which appeared in 1879 under the title Karyū shunwa (“A Spring Tale of Blossoms and Willows”). The early translations were inaccurate, and the translators unceremoniously deleted any passages that they could not understand readily or that they…
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