The "mystery" is partly explained in the French edition I have
DomA Send a noteboard - 18/11/2011 11:30:33 PM
There's a note to the reader from the translator (1926) that Mann meant the text in French in the original to be left untranslated in foreign editions. Whatever literary effect he sought to achieve with that couldn't work in a French translation, thus the note.
So by the author's intent that was supposed to be half-understood, or not at all, by many readers.
So by the author's intent that was supposed to be half-understood, or not at all, by many readers.
Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) by Thomas Mann
16/11/2011 06:16:08 AM
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What do they talk about?
16/11/2011 06:35:23 PM
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They didn't translate the French for you?
16/11/2011 07:22:27 PM
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If I recall, my edition too did not translate that passage
17/11/2011 02:43:16 AM
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That is just bizarre.
17/11/2011 04:59:38 AM
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I can't recall if they did or not
17/11/2011 05:21:01 AM
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My copy is extremely old as well.
18/11/2011 01:56:20 PM
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Nope. Franklin Library leatherbound.
18/11/2011 06:13:49 PM
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Looks like it didn't translate everything...
18/11/2011 06:18:50 PM
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Ha!
18/11/2011 06:29:42 PM
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Or Greek...he left the really good stuff in Greek.
18/11/2011 07:22:08 PM
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I was thinking of the older Loeb Library translations, but Gibbon will work as well!
18/11/2011 10:35:46 PM
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The "mystery" is partly explained in the French edition I have
18/11/2011 11:30:33 PM
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