[lit-ideas] Re: Stenka Rasin
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:59:00 -0400
WO: Very, very rarely do I find that the
translation of a sentence from one of these
languages to another is either
impossible or is severely distortive of the sense
of the original text.
That's because you have a philosophical style of
mind. If instead you were a poet or a comedian,
you would discover a world of wordplay, allusion,
and metareference that does not survive translation.
To pick one famous example, why is Nabokov's
_Onegin_ so lumbering?
Yours,
Stanky Yadium
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