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For those with a passing interest in this topic and quite some patience, "le ton beau de Marót" by Douglas Hofstadter is a whole book of musings about translati
by riffraff 9mo ago
For those with a passing interest in this topic and quite some patience, "le ton beau de Marót" by Douglas Hofstadter is a whole book of musings about translation, particularly of poetry.
It's a fun book full of interesting linguistic trivia.
The patience would be needed to get through the 50 or so translations of the same poem, all different and "wrong" in some way.
- kjellsbells 9mo agoalso recommended: After Babel by George Steiner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Babel
- jasomill 9mo agoSee also the preface[1] to Hofstadter's translation[2] of Eugene Onegin. [1] https://jasomill.at/HofstadterOneginPreface.pdf https://jasomill.at/HofstadterOneginPreface.pdf [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-465-02094-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-465-0209...