[lit-ideas] Re: American poetic scene at the beginning of 72
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:52:43 -0400
Most poetry loses in the translation. I remember when I watched the
Simpsons in Russian. It was not the Simpsons. The words were translated,
but it was no longer the Simpsons. I've never read any Shakespeare in
Russian. I can't imagine what that's like. I should dig some up and see
how it sounds in Russian. Maybe just the "to be or not to be" soliloquy.
Stories and prose are doable. Poetry is virtually impossible.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/12/2006 11:11:22 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: American poetic scene at the beginning of 72
>
> >>wasn't Mallarmé on about using poetry to demonstrate the
> beauty of language? Not in the sense of the sensical but
> beyond the reality of the sensical, finding meaning within
> the nonsense/reality?
>
>
> That could be why Mallarmé is considered untranslatable.
>
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