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Re: I am consumed with envy. DomA Send a noteboard - 02/05/2011 09:06:58 PM
... the books would also all fit for the challenges, but it's all purely by chance.

Simone Bertière's newest, described in her intro as a "light and fun-to-write little book", now in paperback: Dumas et les Mousquetaires - histoire d'un chef-d'oeuvre" , a short history of the writing of Dumas's trilogy (and the origins of the Roman-feuilleton "genre";), doubled by her original analysis of the three novels through the eyes of an historian specialist of the times in which the books are set, and even more a specialist of the central figures Dumas has turned into characters (from Retz to Mazarin, Anne d'Autriche to Louise de Lavallière, Bertière has written history books or biographies on each of those people).

OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH. Oh my. I am going to need to read that book. Oh My!

Yes please. Although she would have to have muddled it up pretty badly for me to not buy that one.



It's obvious she's had a lot of fun writing this one, and it makes it fun to read too. Not terribly deep, but still fun and informative.


Umberto Eco's Il Cimitero di Praga (Le Cimetière de Prague in French, coming out in English toward the end of 2011 as Prague's Cemetary).

It is out already in French? That just isn't fair.


His French and Spanish translations always come out earlier than others. I think this might have to do with the fact Eco is said to collaborate a lot to the translation work, especially in the languages he's fluent in. I guess this means he's not working on many translations at once, and seemingly he always starts with Spanish, then French.

This novel in particular must have been easier than usual to translate to French, as a very great deal of the sources and literary references Eco used are French, and so are many of the historical events happening or referred to in the book (a lot of it happens in Paris), and the protagonist's diary is written in French, so I think Eco might well have mimicked French mannerisms in the original Italian to render that, which would have made it all the easier to translate in French.

As always the translation by Jean-Noël Schiffano reads extremely well, and the edition is well done, so I guess he might have started working with Eco before the book was even out in Italy, as he's done for some of the earlier novels.


I had not heard of that one. I may have to read it. It could go horribly, horribly wrong. But how is one supposed to resist? The Murray Time Travel Agency. Lovely.


50 pages in. So far, so good but no alternate history/sf elements have come in yet. I kind of like the tone/style of the narrator so far.
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