Diez versiones de Kafka

What happens to a writer's work when it is translated? And what happens when that writer is Franz Kafka? From the mid-1920s onward, a handful of authors breathed new life into his works outside the language and place where they were conceived, rescuing them from the oblivion to which the Soviet and Nazi authorities sought to condemn them. Bruno Schulz translated him into Polish before being shot by a member of the Gestapo, Milena Jesenská rendered him with precision into Czech before being deported, and Jorge Luis Borges into Spanish before losing his sight. Paul Celan and Primo Levi translated him into Romanian and Italian, respectively, in light of their experiences in concentration camps. Their Russian translators worked clandestinely. And as for the poet Melech Ravitch, he translated him into Yiddish for an audience that had practically vanished after the war.