NIIMOTO FUMINARI    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Arts and Letters    Position   Professor
Research Period	2007～2009
Research Topic	Translation and critical potential of text : A study on English, French and Japanese translations of Robert Walser
Research Type	KAKENHI Research
Consignor	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Program Type	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
KAKENHI Grant No.	19520262
Responsibility	Representative Researcher
Representative Person	NIIMOTO Fuminari
Details	Robert Walser's prose beginning with short compositions of a fictional naif schoolboy, culminating with three novels in Berlin and ending with tiny, densely pencil-jotted posthumous manuscripts is regarded as one of the most complicated and radical writings in the modern German literature. In this study we shed light on the critical potential of his text by comparative analysis of its English, French and Japanese translations, through discussions with translators in various languages, and in the translation practice into Japanese.