The Impossibility of Translating Franz Kafka, The New Yorker, 3.1.1999

Question 1

to feel alienated from

Answer 1

відчувати відчуження від

Question 2

valedictory

Answer 2

прощальна промова; прощальне слово

Question 3

incommensurable
/ˌɪnkəˈmenʃərəbəl/

Answer 3

незрівнянний

Question 4

ghastly

Answer 4

unpleasant and shocking:
Today’s newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.

Question 5

outstrip

Answer 5

перевершувати (у чому-небудь):
His imaginings outstrip history and memoir, incident and record, film and reportage.

Question 6

cumulatively
/ˈkjuːmjələtɪvli/

Answer 6

у сукупності, загалом:
Cumulatively, Kafka’s work is an archive of our era.
Cumulatively these studies are telling a very similar story.
Cumulatively, I’ve been sleep-deprived for nearly a decade now.
Property tax collections cumulatively rose 5 percent last year.

Question 7

anomie
/ˈænəmi/

Answer 7

аномія, моральний занепад; крах традиційних устоїв; розпад особистості, моральний розклад; стан відчуження (людини або групи осіб), спричинене аномією

Question 8

premonition
/ˌpreməˈnɪʃən/

Answer 8

передчуття
a feeling that something, especially something unpleasant, is going to happen:
[ + that ] He had a premonition that his plane would crash, so he took the train.
She had a sudden premonition of what the future might bring.

Question 9

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/01/11/the-impossibility-of-being-kafka