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Daryaganj Sunday Book Market，俗称Daryaganji Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar，是一个每周一度的非正式市场，出售二手、稀有和盗版书籍，在过去的五十年里一直在老德里的街道上经营。在这篇文章中，我关注的是这个市场上蓬勃发展的一个循环，即盗版、“复制品”或D书。为了研究盗版在当今的Patri Kitab Bazaar盛行的形式及其背后的原因，我比较了这里发现的两种盗版书籍：一种是印地语的低价自助手册，另一种是印度著名作家Chetan Bhagat的英文小说的D版。当我研究“随机性”在盗版文本构成中所起的重要作用时，我认为这种明显缺乏模式或不可预测性的现象是有组织的。这种秩序和混乱的排列与集市的位置产生了共鸣 – 一个因街道的偶然发现而繁荣起来的地方。
Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, is a weekly informal market for used, rare, and pirated books that has been operating on the streets of Old Delhi for the past fifty years. In this essay, I focus on one of the circuits that has been flourishing in this market, that of pirated or ‘duplicate’ or D-books. In order to examine the forms in which piracy thrives in the present-day Patri Kitab Bazaar, and the reasons behind it, I compare two types of pirated books found here: a low-price self-help manual in Hindi and a ‘D’ copy of an English novel by popular Indian author Chetan Bhagat. As I examine the essential role that ‘randomness’ plays in the constitution of pirated texts, I suggest that there is organization to this apparent lack of pattern or unpredictability. Such permutation of order and chaos resonates with the location of the bazaar – a site that thrives on the serendipity of the streets.
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