Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts

The Library of Babel

2.5.11


I can't pick a single quote from this, let alone one short enough for here. You're just going to have to read it for yourselves, if you haven't already. Or re-read it if you have. It's only 8½ pages.

Enjoy.

If on a winter's night a traveller, chapter 9

19.1.11



Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop.


I'm reading a translation of an Italian book in which the Reader reads translations of other European language stories...


'Traduttore, traditore' - 'translator, traitor', as the Italian proverb puts it.
(from 50 Literature Ideas)

50 literature ideas you really need to know, 11

15.1.11


Here's a Curiosity: the publication date on the Publisher's website is 6th January 2011. I bought mine before Christmas, 2010. So, what am I reading?

Whatever it is it's good.

The Translation Paradox. It's impossible - but what option do we have? See If on a winter's night a traveller.