Woods mss., 1977-2004
Summary Information
Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
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Creator
Woods, John E. (John Edwin)
TitleWoods mss., 1977-2004
Collection No.
LMC 2269
Extent
1,505 items
Language
Materials are in English.
Abstract
The Woods mss., 1977-2004, consist of
correspondence and manuscripts of German works translated into English by John Edwin
Woods.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
John Edwin Woods (1942- ) has won numerous awards for his translations, including the
Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize (1996), the ALTA Translation of the Year
Award (1994), the Society of Authors Schlegel–Tick Prize (1991), the PEN Translation
Prize (1987 and 1981), and the American Book Award for Translation (1981). Woods has
translated all of the major novels of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann.
Arrangement
This collection is organized into the following series: I. General correspondence;
II. Translations; III. Arno Schmidt; IV. Writings by Woods; V. Additions, 2005.
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes numerous items related to his work as a translator of Arno
Schmidt's works. There is a large body of correspondence regarding Schmidt written
by Ernst Krawehl and others, as well as manuscripts of Schmidt writings translated
by Woods, such as Evening Edged in Gold, School for Atheists and "Lake Scenes with
Pocahontas." Also present are an array of published and unpublished manuscripts
translated from the writings of such German authors as Thomas Mann, Libuŝe Monikóvá,
John Rabe, Christoph Ransmayr, Jan Philip Reemstma, and Ingo Schulze. Most of the
manuscripts include the handwritten edits and annotations made by the
translator.
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Indexing Terms
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Names
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Schmidt, Arno,
1914-1979 --Translations into English.
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Woods, John E. (John
Edwin) --Correspondence.
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Krawehl, Ernst, 1909-
--Correspondence
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Krawehl, Ernst,
1909-
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Schmidt, Arno,
1914-1979
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Mann, Thomas,
1875-1955.
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Monikóvá,
Libuŝe.
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Rabe, John,
1882-1950
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Ransmayr, Christoph,
1954-
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Reemtsma, Jan
Philipp.
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Schulze, Ingo,
1962-
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Acquired: 2002, 2005.
Usage RestrictionsPrior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however,
patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in
advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Woods mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Processing InformationProcessed by Staff.
Completed in 2013
Series:
General Correspondence
Box 1
1979-2002
(34 folders)
Series:
Translations
Subseries:
Book Translations
Box 1
Mann, Thomas.
Doctor Faustus.
Translated by John E. Woods (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1997)
T.D., edited (6 folders)
Mann.
The Magic Mountain.
Translated by John E. Woods (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1995)
T.D., copy-edited (6 folders)
Box 2
Mann, Thomas.
The Magic
Mountain,
cont.
(4 folders)
Monikóvá. Libuše.
Drift Ice.
Translated by John E. Woods. Unpublished manuscript.
T.D., edited (2 folders)
Monikóvá.
Impairment
(Schädigung). Unpublished manuscript.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Monikóvá.
Pavane for a Dead
Princess.
Translated by John E. Woods. 1991. Unpublished
manuscript.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Rabe, John.
The Good Man of Nanking:
the Diaries of John Rabe.
Edited by Erwin Wickert.
Translated by John E. Woods (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1998). Notes (faxes) of Wickert.
1997
(1 folder)
Rabe.
The Good Man of Nanking.
Correspondence from Erwin Wickert, 1998
(1 folder)
Rabe.
The Good Man of Nanking.
Manuscript titled: "The Good German of
Nanking."
T.D., edited (3 folders)
Rabe.
The Good Man of Nanking.
Manuscript.
T.D., edited (3 folders)
Ransmayr, Christoph.
The Dog
King.
Translated by John E. Woods (New York: A.A. Knopf,
1997). Manuscript titled:
"The Kitahara
Syndrome."
T.D., edited (3 folders)
Ransmayr.
"Fatehpur."
Speech. Nov. 10-11, 1996.
T.D. (1 folder)
Ransmayr.
"The
Unborn."
T.D. Accompanied by original German story; 2 sets of edited
proofs (1 folder)
Box 3
Reemstma, Jan Philipp.
"And So for
the Reason Noted,"
c.1990. Speech.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Reemstma.
"In Honor of Daniel
Goldberg, On the Occasion of His Being Awarded the Democracy
Prize,"
Mar. 17,
1997. Speech.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Reemstma.
More Than a Champion: The
Style of Muhammad Ali.
Translated by John E. Woods (New
York: A.A. Knopf, 1998).
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Reemstma.
"The Political Semantics
of the Concept of 'Torture,'"
ca.
1990.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Reemstma.
"State Terror"
ca.
1990.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Reemstma.
"Survivor
Memoirs"
ca.
1998.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Reemstma.
"Terroratio I"
ca.
1990.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Reemstma.
"Terroratio II"
ca.
1990.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Reemstma.
"Toward a Psychoanalytic
Understanding of Human Cruelty"
ca.
1990.
T.D., edited (1 folder)
Schulze, Ingo.
33 Moments of
Happiness: St. Petersburg Stories.
Translated by John E.
Woods (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1998)
T.D., edited (2 folders)
Schulze.
33 Moments of
Happiness.
T.D., copy-edited (2 folders)
Schulze.
Simple Stories
Translated by John E. Woods (New York: A.A. Knopf, 2000)
T.D., edited (2 folders)
Wagner, Richard.
Tannhäuser: In Full
Score.
German, with English interlinear translations by
John E. Woods (New York: Dover Publications, 1984)
(bound volume)
Wagner.
Tannhäuser and the Tournament
of Song at Wartburg.
Edited and translated by Natalia
Macfarren. (New York: G. Schirmer, ca. 1990-1995?)
Annotated for surtitles by John E. Woods
(bound volume)
Wagner. Lyric Opera of Chicago
Tannhäuser production folder, 1998-1999.
T.D., 46pp.
(1 folder)
Includes surtitles program.
Subseries:
Other Translations
Box 3
Döblin, Alfred.
Mountain Seas and
Giants,
ca.
1981. Unpublished sample.
T.D., 18pp.
(1 folder)
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus.
"Hitler's Wraith [Wrath],"
ca.
1995. Translated by John E. Woods.
T.D., 9pp.
(1 folder)
Enzensberger.
"Inserts for Bosnia
- Uganda,"
ca. 1995.
T.D., 1p.
(1 folder)
Enzensberger.
"Manhunting in
Germany,"
ca.
1995. Translated by John E. Woods.
T.D., 6pp.
(1 folder)
Fleischhauer, Jan.
"Victory or
Siberia,"
ca.
1999. Translated by John E. Woods.
T.D., 24pp.
Ganzfried, Daniel.
"The Borrowed
Holocaust Biography,"
27 Aug. 1998. Translated by
John E. Woods.
T.D., 15pp.
Accompanied by
"After Auschwitz,
Facts Don't Count,"
11 Sept. 1998. T.D.,
10pp.
Glotz, Peter.
"Forward to Europe:
A Manifesto for a New European Left,"
ca. 1985.
Translated by John E. Woods. T.D.
Accompanied by copy of German text
Pross, Harry.
"The Grand
Reconciliation: Kitsch as a Social Product,"
Mar. 1985. Translated by John
E. Woods. T.D.
Accompanied by a photocopy of German text
Süskind, Patrick.
Perfume,
Fall 1985. Unpublished sample.
T.D., edited, [14]pp.
Assorted published reviews, 1983-2001
Series:
Arno Schmidt
Subseries:
Correspondence, 1977-1987
Box 3
Ernst Krawehl and John Woods concerning translations of Arno
Schmidt.
Mostly in German
(17 folders)
Subseries:
Correspondence, 1978-2002
Box 4
Concerning Arno Schmidt
(19 folders)
Subseries:
Translations of Works by Arno Schmidt
Box 4
Evening Edged in Gold.
Translated by John E. Woods (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
c.1980)
Includes: Manuscript, 1977. T.D.,
edited, [83]pp.; Notes & Queries, 1978-1979; Plot
summary, 1980. T.D.; Ott, Peter F.,
"Comments on the Occasion of the
Publication of Evening Edged in Gold by Arno Schmidt,"
1981. T.D., 14pp.
(photocopied) (4 folders)
Box 5
"Great Cain."
Two drafts of
manuscript.
T.D., edited, 18pp.
Accompanied by queries and answers, 2pp.
"Lake Scenes With
Pocahontas"
in
Collected
Novellas,
ca.
1981. Translated by John E. Woods (Normal, IL: Dalkey
Archive Press, 1994)
Manuscript.
T.D., edited, 16pp.
Scenes from the Life of a Faun: A
Short Novel,
ca. 1980.
Translated by John E. Woods (London; New York: M. Boyars, 1983) Manuscript.
T.D, edited, 156pp.
(2 folders)
School for Atheists: A Novella-Comedy
in Six Acts,
ca. 1999.
Translated by John E. Woods (København; Los Angeles: Green Integer,
2001). Manuscript. Second
version, first draft.
T.D., edited, 301pp.
(4 folders)
School for Atheists,
Apr. 1999. Manuscript. Second
version, second draft.
T.D., edited, 301pp.
(4 folders)
"Tall Grete"
in
The Collected Stories of Arno Schmidt.
Translated by John E. Woods (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press,
1996).
Manuscript.
T.D., edited, 3pp.
Box Oversize
Evening Edged in Gold,
ca. 1979.
Prepared by S. Fischer for presentation at Frankfurt Book
Fair.
T.D., 54pp.
(bound and photocopied)
Series:
Writings by Woods
Box 4
"On Translating the Unconventional
Prose of Arno Schmidt,"
ca.
1981.
T.D., 6pp., edited. (photocopied)
"Of Bicycles and Violins,"
ca. 1994.
Speech.
T.D., edited, 8pp.
Series:
Additions, 2005
Subseries:
Book Translations
Box 4
Mann, Thomas.
Joseph and his
Brothers.
Translated by John E. Woods (New York:
Everyman's Library, 2005) Books I
& II.
T.D., edited (4 folders)
Box 5
Mann, Thomas.
Joseph and his Brothers,
cont.
Books III & IV.
T.D., corrected draft (8 folders)
Mann. Books I-III. Copy-edited ms.
Box 6
Mann, Thomas.
Joseph and his Brothers,
cont.
Book IV. Copy-edited ms.
Mann. Books I-IV. Proofs: First pass, Apr. 15, 2004.
Mann. Books I-III. Proofs: Author's set, Apr. 23, 2004.
Box 7
Mann, Thomas. Joseph and His Brothers, cont. Book IV. Proofs,
Author's set
Mann. Books I-IV. Proofs: second pass, July 19, 2004.
