Seriously, I'm trying to think of something that I would (a) want to read and (b) need to read in translation. Persian poetry is all I'm coming up with, and even then I'm sort of lukewarm about that. There are a few books in Czech or Polish that would have qualified (namely, Kundera and Lem) but I read them before this new policy. Then there are so many languages which don't seem to have produced anything that I would be interested in, like Hungarian, Urdu, Turkish, Swahili and Vietnamese.
So...come up with some ideas! Suggest books that I would need to read in translation!!! I'm curious...am I really through with translations?
So...come up with some ideas! Suggest books that I would need to read in translation!!! I'm curious...am I really through with translations?
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
I think I'm through with translations
- 29/12/2010 04:53:47 AM
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Well, you might need it for part of José María Arguedas' Los ríos profundos
- 29/12/2010 05:56:31 AM
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I'm sure they're good writers, but are they GREAT writers?
- 29/12/2010 10:14:11 PM
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Thiong'o is
- 29/12/2010 10:46:00 PM
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Since I can read Spanish the question of who is or isn't great in Spanish is moot.
- 29/12/2010 11:57:18 PM
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I agree on the Spanish
- 30/12/2010 12:47:30 AM
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If the Kalevala were actually historic I might be tempted.
- 30/12/2010 05:27:00 AM
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It's a common 19th century thing, I'll admit
- 30/12/2010 10:49:42 PM
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Sadly, a lot of people STILL think The Da Vinci Code was historically accurate.
- 31/12/2010 12:04:40 AM
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Ha!
- 31/12/2010 03:53:32 AM
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Norwegian? or other Scandinavian languages?
- 29/12/2010 01:44:46 PM
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No, no interest.
- 29/12/2010 10:10:26 PM
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Re: No, no interest.
- 29/12/2010 10:11:45 PM
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I'm basing this on others not being translated or mentioned or discussed. *NM*
- 29/12/2010 10:14:48 PM
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Seriously?
- 29/12/2010 11:24:34 PM
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I'm dismissing authors that don't have general acceptance in the literary canon.
- 30/12/2010 12:01:18 AM
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You are only going to read what people read in college?
- 30/12/2010 12:08:43 AM
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Let me state it otherwise: no one outside Scandinavia reads those people.
- 30/12/2010 05:25:28 AM
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August Strindberg definitely is a big name. And as for Blixen...
- 30/12/2010 07:00:42 PM
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Ew...Out of Africa...I hated that movie.
- 30/12/2010 09:41:35 PM
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See my point? 
- 30/12/2010 10:23:27 PM
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- 30/12/2010 10:23:27 PM
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Oh, and I read and loved Kierkegaard.
- 29/12/2010 10:15:05 PM
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in translation? *NM*
- 29/12/2010 11:58:13 PM
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Yes, in translation. I don't know Danish and am not going to learn. *NM*
- 30/12/2010 12:02:14 AM
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Seems to me like you're just ignoring the books in languages you don't speak, tbh...
- 29/12/2010 09:58:15 PM
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Odd question prompted by this. Has The Lord of the Rings ever been published in Elvish? *NM*
- 01/01/2011 04:21:21 AM
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