Gulliver’s Adventures on the Romanian Children’s Literature Shelf
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Abstract: This paper complements previous research on the impact of Jonathan Swift’s work on the Romanian literary culture (Bogdan, 1958; Mudure, 2005). It documents and analyses the transition of Gulliver’s Travels to the Romanian children’s literature shelf by looking into the translations, translated adaptations, Romanian adaptations, rewritings, and sequels, published over the twentieth century. The results reveal that the best translations, rewritings, and adaptations were published in the decades following WWII, while the last decade of the century is marked by little to no editorial attention to the versions of the Swiftian novel that were published as children’s literature.
Keywords: Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, children’s literature, literary adaptations for children, literary translation.
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