Hongloumeng and I: Living with Fiction( Recollections of a Translator)

Abstract

This contribution provides a vivid recollection of the work and thought of one European translator of Hongloumeng; in Czech historically, onthologically, and theoretically particular rhetorical situation; as a unique experience of a distant reading of the wrecked writing of genius.

Keywords

• complete translation
• implied reader
• literariness
• rhetorical situation
• tongbian
• wrecked reading
• melancholia
• distant reading