Szelényi Annie – And Then I Played Ragtime…

 No movie adaptation of a book can appear in the cinema without bringing along the repeated discussion of what makes a good adaptation. Articles deal with it, even Youtube videos deal with it, and when I was given the assignment to moderate the class of the movie adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel, Ragtime, I…

Kassai Zita – Watchmen

I frankly admit, up until a few years ago I was never much of a comic book kind of person. That is to say, I was never really familiar with any comic book at all; maybe because (and this is the stereotypical reason) I am a girl, or maybe because comic books were far from…

Mogyorósi Zoltán – Translating Culture

I believe in translation. This statement might sound odd, but more and more examples prove each day that the technical realisation of cultural translation cannot be carried out, moreover, it is not considered to be necessary by some of the translators. I found that phenomenon utterly disturbing, so I chose a novel which has become…