Framing translation: Adolf Hoffmeister's comic strips, travelogues, and interviews as introductions to modernist translations

This review highlights the article by Woods on how paratexts can help grasp difficult modernist texts. With the help of the experience of the Czech translator Adolf Hoffmeister, Woods reports his ability to accompany his foreignizing translations of Joyce and Shaw with interviews, travelogues, and illustrations to make them 'understandable to a receiving audience' .