It often ages poorly, and healthy cultures are able to grapple with that without sweeping it under the rug, which makes it hard for us to appreciate our progress, because we lose points of reference,” she said. “Since he’s long gone, it’s bizarre to change historical documents and put words into his mouth.” “Those changes were made in his own words,” she said. Credit: Rob Bogaerts/Anefo via Wikimedia Commons.Įmily Jashinsky, culture editor at The Federalist and host of Federalist Radio Hour, told JNS that Dahl edited his books, including “Charlie,” to reflect better values. Roald Dahl signs books for children in Amsterdam on Oct. “It’s enough to make you wish the people behind this decision suffer the fates of Veruca Salt or Augustus Gloop.” (In Dahl’s book, the former goes down a garbage chute, and the latter is squeezed through a pipe.) Those who would be offended by a character described as “fat” or “thin” (Puffin changed both) “are unlikely to like much else about Dahl’s very dark humor,” according to Scalia. The quality of the writing suffers as a result-and in at least one case, the very moral of the novel changes, too,” said Scalia. “In many cases, significant passages are either removed or replaced. The changes aren’t just a word here or there. (DEI is diversity, equity and inclusion.) Many of the edits are intended to bring the novels in line with DEI-approved views about gender and sex differences that are not mainstream,” Christopher Scalia, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies culture, told JNS. “These edits aren’t to passages that most readers would deem racist or misogynistic. “It’s Roald Dahl, but different,” The Telegraph reports. Among the changes, per the London paper, are “Cloud-People” replacing “Cloud-Men,” and changing a reference from Rudyard Kipling to Jane Austen.Įlsewhere, “mothers and fathers” becomes “parents,” “maid” morphs into “cleaner,” and “red in the face” is rendered “hot under the collar.” Penguin Random House’s Puffin Books has altered hundreds of words in the Dahl books it publishes, reports The Telegraph. The degree to which writers can be separated from their writings is subject to dispute. He claimed that Jewish publishers “control the media” and said, “I’m certainly anti-Israeli, and I’ve become antisemitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism.”
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