There are translations in Welsh and Isle of Man in this work.”

You will not be surprised if someone translates 'Paradise Lost' into Spanish or French. And among these 57 languages, many are not lingua franca, such as the Isle of Man (Manx), which is spoken by only a few people. But what we didn't expect at first was that it was translated into so many languages, which really surprised us. Issa said: 'There must be many, many different translations of 'Paradise Lost', which we expected. Gilas, who was behind bars at the time, wrote the translation on toilet paper with a pencil and smuggled the translation with it.

They found that in different periods, the act of translating 'Paradise Lost' is often 'a manifestation of rebellious spirit and nationalism.' They cited some examples: in the Soviet period, the translation of 'Paradise Lost' was a manifestation of resistance to Soviet nationalism in the Middle East, the wave of translation of 'Paradise Lost' reached its climax during the 'Arab Spring' Yugoslav political prisoner Milovan Milovan Djilas translated 'Paradise Lost' into Serbo-Croatian in the 1960s. Jonathan Olson (Jonathan Olson) took the lead, and these scholars gathered together. Islam Issa (Birmingham City University) and Grand Canyon University (Grand Canyon University) Dr. Is composed of Professor Angelica Duran (Purdue University), Dr. , Has been translated into 57 different languages, from Faroese, Manx to Tamil, Tonga, from Persian, Hebrew to Frisian and Welsh. One of the statistics shows that the works of this great 17th century poet has been translated more than 300 times. More than 50 scholars around the world have collaborated and published a new book ' Milton in Translation' ( Milton in Translation).

According to surveys, 'Paradise Lost' has been translated more times in the past 30 years than the total number of translations in the past three centuries. Until now, this work is still attracting worldwide attention. 350 years ago, John Milton published the revolutionary epic 'Paradise Lost' ( Paradise Lost), which revealed the original sin and fall of man.

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