[lit-ideas] Original and Translation: The Borges Paradox
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 12:12:40 EDT
In a message dated 5/7/2004 2:43:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
teme17@xxxxxxxxx writes:
often the
translations were of considerably higher quality than
the originals.
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Mmm. This reminds me of Borges,
"All the foregoing books I read in English.
When later I read _Don Quixote_ in the original, it
sounded like a bad translation to me."
('Autobiographical Essay').
My favourite case is Rubbayat by E. Fitzgerald -- a great improvement on the
original Persian (at least that's what Geary thinks -- that it's from the
Persian).
Cheers,
JL
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