Translated Accounts
{{short description|2001 novel by James Kelman}}
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Translated Accounts is a novel by the Scottish writer James Kelman published in 2001 by Secker & Warburg.{{cite news|last=Adams|first=Tim|title=Kafka with convolutions|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/10/fiction.features|accessdate=23 January 2014|newspaper=The Observer|date=10 June 2001}}{{cite journal|last=Mapstone|first=Sally|title=Common Sense|journal=London Review of Books|date=15 November 2001|volume=23|issue=22|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n22/sally-mapstone/common-sense}}
Critical reception
Upon release, Translated Accounts was generally well-received among British press. {{cite news |title=Books of the moment: What the papers say|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph/151396965/ |access-date=19 July 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 Jun 2001 |page=56}} {{cite news |title=Books of the moment: What the papers say |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph/152691098/|access-date=19 July 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=16 Jun 2001 |page=56}}
The reviewer for The Observer wrote: "This novel marks a change of direction for Kelman, in that it shifts away from his immediate locality to stake out an unnamed, almost abstract terrain; the linguistic power struggle remains a constant, however. ...This book has been seven years in the writing, and you are made to feel the weight of that work in almost every line."
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