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A Translated Stew of “Griefs and Sorrows”
One of the most recent English translations of Don Quixote is the one by James Montgomery in which the second sentence goes like this (with a footnote): A daily stew consisting of more beef than...
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Edith Grossman’s Translation of Gabriel García Márquez without “-ly”
Edith Grossman compromises, and contradicts, and does all the wonderful things good translators of good literature must do when they are asked to promote a particular theory of translation that gets at...
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How doth the little crocodile
A few years ago, I suggested on a blog that early English Bibles were translated more from Latin and German than from Greek and Hebrew. Hmm. I am not exactly sure of my exact wording and perhaps that...
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The Enthymeme (a translation of Matthew 9:1-8 NA28 Greek)
He embarked onto a craft He passed over He entered into his own city-state Dear reader, look: They bore to him a cripple Upon a cot discarded He looked: Joshua at their credibility He said to the...
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Les Misérables: Julie Rose’s Victor Hugo
With the spectacular film version of the major Broadway musical adaptation of the English translations of the French novel playing in theaters worldwide, there’s a renewed interest in Victor Hugo’s Les...
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Translating Translations: no pound of raisins for Екатерина Лобкова
Not long ago, I found on a translation competition website how Екатерина Лобкова (Ekaterina Lobka) translated into Russian how David Bellos translated into English the following Chinese “shunkouliu”...
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Andrew Hurley’s outrageous translation technique
This week I read Andrew Hurley’s (University of Puerto Rico) remarkable but odd translation of Bartolomé de las Casas, O. P.’s 1552 book Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias [An Account,...
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My co-blogger Theophrastus has asked about Andrew Hurley’s “translation technique” in rendering Bartolomé de las Casas, O. P.’s 1552 book Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. I think...
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“translating” Julian of Norwich: her various “original” mss
Fortunately, we readers do not have to make a “choice between Julian of Norwich’s mystical visions directly from her” and “a long series of non-mystic intermediaries who interpreted her.” (This is...
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What came to be in the end: Moses, Sappho, and Julian of Norwich’s ‘Amen’
Dear blog readers, At some point, our conversation around Julian of Norwich’s Showings may come to an end. And at some point again, we might just turn it into a series of posts. For now, I do hope...
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Goodbye, Donald Richie
Sad news: Donald Richie, one of the leading English-writing film critics, died today in Tokyo at age 88. Richie helped introduce several generations of Americans – including me and probably many of...
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David Ker on literacy vs. Bible translation
David Ker, of Lingamish, Future Bible, Kanyimbe, and Red Zebra fame, apparently has had a bit of a change of heart. While David previously was with Wycliffe Bible Translators and an unabashed supporter...
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Forthcoming Book on Translating Finnegans Wake
With the recent publicity over the Finnegans Wake translations recently into Polish and Chinese (first third of book only) being added to the existing translations in Dutch, French, German, Italian,...
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Greek Isaiah 7: the rhetorics and poetry of ἐν γαστρὶ
For the 11th annual Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, I submitted my English translation of the Greek Septuagint translation of Isaiah 7:1 to 8:19. Already, we all can see the difficulties and the...
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To 逼 or not to 逼?: From V-独白 to “I’ll say it [in 10 dialects], 阴道!”
There are a number of things in China that are not spoken in public easily. Chinese speaker Julian Baird Gewirtz, writing for The Huffington Post, did manage to report publicly on his hearing and...
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Breast-God: women in the male literary imagination of Genesis 49
With the dim hope of discovering more … female authors writing in Hebrew, the only path left for the Hebrew … feminist is treating issues of women and gender via the male-authored texts. Historians may...
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“La Négresse blonde” and even “grammaire”
This post is a follow up to two by Suzanne. In the first, she addresses the question of “The gender of sin” particularly in the Hebrew of Gen. 3:16 and of Gen. 4:7, when the men-only translators and...
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Dante’s manly Latin for his womanly Italian
Dante, the man, allegedly penned the following in a letter to his patron Cangrande, another man. It’s that famous explanation of his (if he actually wrote it) of his Divine Commedy. Of course, he wrote...
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New translations of Iliad, Odyssey, Decameron, Ivan Ilyich, and Tolstoy’s...
A somewhat overwrought Wall Street Journal article announces several new translations: Barry Powell’s translation of the Iliad (published by Oxford) – this looks very promising. Stephen Mitchell’s...
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Marg Mowczko’s Post on 1 Clement
A few days ago Marg Mowczko’s Blog New Life had this to say about Clement’s use of the Greek word for “head” (transliterated “kephale”) in the letter known as 1 Clement: This passage in 1 Clement is...
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