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Of course I understand the impulse, but translating Finnegans Wake strikes me as nearly impossible and worth only questionable effort. Even beyond the fact that
by darby_nine 2y ago
Of course I understand the impulse, but translating Finnegans Wake strikes me as nearly impossible and worth only questionable effort. Even beyond the fact that it's often expressing non-analytic semantics that are extremely difficult to pin down, it's not even entirely English and there's a lot of cross-language wordplay.
- kreyenborgi 2y agohttps://www.nrk.no/kultur/xl/han-oversetter-verdens-vanskeligste-bok-1.15957023 https://www.nrk.no/kultur/xl/han-oversetter-verdens-vanskeli... ( The Swedes used 66 years, but according to the Norwegian translator, it is no harder than Shakespeare's sonettes. Begun 2016, ETA 2030. )