A karshen makon da ya gabata ne aka bayar da rahoton yadda a yanzu ake sake buga littattafan fitaccen marubucin littafin yara, Roald Dahl, bayan gagarumin canje-canje ga rubutun. A cewar The Guardian, Canje-canjen kawai game da cire "harshen m" daga littattafansa. Kamfanin Labari na Roald Dahl ya ce sauye-sauyen ba su da yawa kuma kawai game da sa rubutun ya zama mai sauƙi da kuma "hada" ga masu karatu na zamani.
Gerald Posner rufe al’amarin a ranar 19 ga Fabrairu, inda ya kawo wasu ‘yan misalan sauye-sauye, wadanda ba qanana ba ne; an cire gabaɗayan sakin layi ko canza su fiye da ganewa. Akwai ɗaruruwan sauye-sauye, in ji Posner, tare da yarda da marubuci Salman Rushdie wanda ya kira waɗannan sauye-sauyen "takalma mara kyau."
Nick Dixon ya buga takaice yanki akan lamarin a cikin Daily Skeptic, yana nuna yadda wasu canje-canjen suka sa rubutun Dahl ya zama marar rai da lebur da yadda aka cire duk abin dariya a hankali. Misali daga Matilda: "Yar ku Vanessa, kuna yin la'akari da abin da ta koya a wannan lokacin, ba ta da sassan ji ko kaɗan." ya zama "Idan aka yi la'akari da abin da 'yarku Vanessa ta koya a wannan lokacin, wannan gaskiyar ita kaɗai ta fi ban sha'awa fiye da duk abin da na koya a cikin aji."
A wasu lokuta, ma'anar ta ɓace kawai: "Ya kusan kashe Ashton kuma. Rabin fatar jikin ta fito daga kan fatar kansa." ya zama "Wannan bai yi wa Ashton kyau ba.Wasu canje-canjen wauta ce, idan aka yi la'akari da lokacin da aka rubuta ainihin rubutun. Misali ɗaya Dixon ya ɗauka: "Ko da tana aiki a matsayin mai karbar kudi a babban kanti ko kuma tana buga wa ɗan kasuwa wasiƙa" ya zama "Ko da tana aiki a matsayin babban masanin kimiyya ko gudanar da kasuwanci."
"Mama" ya zama "iyaye," "Mutum" ya zama "mutum", da kuma "maza" zama "mutane." "Muna cin yara maza da mata" ya zama "Muna cin kananan yara." Samari da 'yan mata ba su da ikon wanzuwa kuma, balle uwa ko uba; An haramta jima'i na halitta. Amma censors, da ake kira sarcastically Hankali Mai Mahimmanci, kada ka damu da al'adar cin yara.
Ana cire ko canza nassoshi ga marubutan da aka dakatar a halin yanzu don gaskatawar da ba ta dace ba. Joseph Conrad ya zama Jane Austen. Rudyard Kipling ya zama John Steinbeck.
Babu wani abu da ya isa ya kubuta daga kallon kallon masu tace fina-finai, in ji Dixon, lura da yadda "Yi shiru, ka nut!" ya zama "Ssshhh!" da kuma "juya fari" ya zama "juyawa sosai." Zuwa ga "haɗe," "farar fata" kalma ce ta haramtacciyar hanya.
Suzanne Nossel, shugabar kungiyar marubuta ta PEN reshen Amurka, ta bayyana damuwarta a cikin hira tare da Washington Post. "Ana nufin adabi ya zama abin mamaki da tsokana," Nossel ya ce, yana bayanin yadda yunƙurin goge rubutun kalmomi da ka iya bata wa wani rai "Rike ikon ba da labari."
Roald Dahl ba shi da wata ma'ana mara jayayya. Amma labaransa sune ainihin labaran da ya rubuta. Rubuce-rubucen da aka shayar da su da tsaftataccen rubutu na masu tantama ba wai kawai labaran marubucin ba ne.
Ko, kamar yadda Posner ya kammala: "Kalmomi suna da mahimmanci. Matsalar ita ce tantancewar Dahl ta tsara samfuri don wasu manyan nasarorin ikon mallakar ikon mallakar mawallafi. Masu karatu su sani cewa kalmomin da suke karantawa ba kalmomin da marubucin ya rubuta ba ne."
Rushewar litattafan Roald Dahl wata alama ce ta rashin gaskiya da muke fuskanta a yanzu. Muna ganin wannan rashin jituwa a kewaye da mu, a cikin adabi, tarihi, siyasa, tattalin arziki, har ma a cikin ilimin kimiyya. Gaskiyar manufa tana ba da hanya zuwa gogewa ta zahiri, motsin rai, ko zaɓi a maimakon abin da ke gaskiya.
Yana ba da hanya, a haƙiƙa, zuwa ra'ayin ra'ayi mai tsattsauran ra'ayi, wanda zai iya zama kawai ma'ana, amma mai cin karo da juna na cin nasara na ɗariƙar ɗaiɗaikun ɗabi'a a yamma a cikin ƴan shekarun da suka gabata. Yana ba da hanya, har sai duk abubuwan da muka saba amfani da su sun tafi, har sai namu hankula duk ya bace; har sai, an rabu, kadaici, rashin iya sadarwa mai ma'ana, ba mu sake raba al'umma ba. Abin da zai maye gurbinsa tabbas ba zai zama tatsuniya ba.
Kuma wane misali mafi kyau na wannan rashin gaskiya fiye da na Mai tsaro kanun labarai, ta yadda gabaɗayan lalata aikin marubucin ƙaunataccen ya zama “cire kalamai masu banƙyama” a ƴan wurare?
An sake bugawa daga marubucin Mayarwa
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Thorsteinn Siglaugsson mashawarcin Icelandic ne, ɗan kasuwa kuma marubuci kuma yana ba da gudummawa akai-akai ga The Daily Skeptic har ma da wallafe-wallafen Icelandic daban-daban. Ya yi digiri na BA a fannin falsafa da MBA daga INSEAD. Thorsteinn ƙwararren ƙwararren ƙwararren ƙwararren ne a cikin Theory of Constraints kuma marubucin Daga Alamu zuwa Dalilai - Aiwatar da Tsarin Tunanin Hankali zuwa Matsala ta Kullum.
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