#translated work

[book51ut]

review of The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by pablo neruda.

ok m gonna talk about translations again bc it FASCINATES ME IM SORRY CANT A GIRL FUCK WITH LINGUISTICS. this has the spanish versions and english translations, but there r like 6-7 different translators who do different poems. and it makes such a difference. there were some translations that felt so flat bc they were literal translations of the words. there were some that shined bc they focused on the tone and the art of it all. but when you’re translating for tone and art, you’re an author in your own right. is it still neruda’s poem? or is it the translators? i’m so glad i know spanish because poetry is so flexible with meanings and insinuations. and i found my self taking different things away from the writing than some of the translators, and being more aligned with others. it was rlly fascinating it rlly rlly was.

i would say i love his poems about war and suffering and tragedy and books and i dislike his poems about love.

[evelynhugosthings]

"If you were to build the world again, to create males and females again, do not be like an inexperienced potter. Come to earth as a woman, Prabhu!

Be a woman once, oh Lord!"

Banu Mushtaq, from "Heart Lamp", tr. Deepa Bhasthi

[polyglot-thought]

Something weird I’ve encountered as an amateur translator that I did not expect is that occasionally I will find myself translating something that was a translation of an English translation. For example I just finished an English translation of a Mandarin translation of Jingle Bells.

Why do I takes these up I do not know, but I will say the Mandarin version is not a direct translation so it does warrant being translated.

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Fave Five: Queer Histfic Set in Paris

Fave Five: Queer Histfic Set in Paris

What’s Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos, translated into English from Greek by Karen Emmerich (1897) The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher (1919) The Last Nude by Ellis Avery (1927) The Book of Salt by Monique Truong (1929) The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert (1941) Bonus: For a more recent historical set in France but not Paris, check out Lie With Me by Philippe Besson, translated into…

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I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

Erich Maria Remarque trans. A. W. Wheen, All Quiet on the Western Front

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