SEELANGS Digest - 19 May 2010 to 20 May 2010 (#2010-178)

[Penelope Burt]

Effusive, yes, but your reading is perhaps a little unfair?
I think what Olga Meerson meant was that Chandler is not beholden to  
any "theories" of translation, nor to some previous idea of what a  
translation should sound like. And why shouldn't there be great  
translators? I certainly hope there are and will be, and she's  
certainly not saying Chandler is the only one.

Respectfully,
Penny Burt


On May 24, 2010, at 10:43 AM, STEPHEN PEARL wrote:

> SEELANGS Digest -19 May to 20 May 2010 contained a somewhat  
> hyberbolic effusion from Ms. Olga Meerson under the rubric of  
> Pushkin's "The Captains Daughter" which I would normally have let  
> pass with a wry smile and perhaps a slight grinding of the teeth,  
> but I find it hard to believe that I was the only reader to have  
> been astounded by one particular assertion which has driven me to  
> put finger to keyboard.
>
> According to W. Shakespeare; : " . . . some are born great, some  
> achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them", and no  
> doubt he felt that by this he had covered all the doorways to  
> "greatness"
>
> Ms. Meerson wrote: "But not everyone is aware of your greatness,  
> who works with the originals without resorting to translations or  
> studying translators' considerations."
>
> I am not sure what is meant by " . . .studying translators'  
> considerations", but if I have correctly construed the rest of her  
> sentence, it would now appear that W.S. may have overlooked the  
> possibility of a fourth doorway, namely that a translator could  
> qualify for this supreme accolade by actually working from the text  
> in the original language - unless, of course, this particular case  
> can be considered to be covered by his (Shakespeare's) third doorway.
>
> It looks as if the rest of the translators' regiment have been  
> marching out of step all this time.
>                           Stephen Pearl
>
>
>
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