/lit/ - Literature

>>21266268
based
just happened to me reading Gredos' spanish translation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
Acantilado tends to do this with their translations. Happened to Les essais of Montaigne and Manuscript found in Zaragoza
BASED

>>21266317
No way, I'm reading Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte in Spanish (published by Galaxia Gutenberg). And the translator says the versions in French, German, and English are based on an old text full of errors. The author himself even complained about the French version back in the day, and the German version lacks the prologue while the English version (NYRB) is missing an entire chapter.
>Happened to Les essais of Montaigne and Manuscript found in Zaragoza
Interesting. What did they say about Les essais?

>>21266334
Acantilado did a very accurate translation of Les Essais fully annotated and including the most important variations of all versions. It's based on the 1595's Gournay version.

Also remembered that Cátedra also shat on all previous translations of Berlin Alexanderplatz to spanish with examples kek

p.s. Old Aguilar editions are SHIT. They were the norm 50 years ago but nowadays almost all their big authors have much better spanish translations

>>21266363
>Also remembered that Cátedra also shat on all previous translations of Berlin Alexanderplatz to spanish with examples kek
kek Imagine being one of the past translators and reading how your work is getting ripped to shreds.

Also, I really want to read Acantilado's version of Manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza. I heard it's only complete one in Spanish.

>>21266268
>translator admits to never have read the book

>>21266426
>this is probably what he meant say, I read his wikipedia page

>translator references a latin translation of the original work rather than the original work itself

>>21266268
>translator denies that other translations of the book even exist, then goes on to criticize previous translations anyways

>>21266268
Seriously. Why can't we have someone to review the translation before it gets published?

>>21266268
>translator denies the original work existed. Claims book as his own

>translator threatens to kill anyone who doesnt keep quiet about the edition

>translator admits he doesn't even really speak the language he's translating the text into

>translator tells the reader to read the work in its original language

>translator leaves entire passages untranslated

>translation is pdf of android screencaps of yandex translate segments of the original

>>21266610
Garnett

>>21266268
This never happens.

>>21267385
It does happen (see first two posts ITT)

>>21266642
Reading Garnetts translation of notes from underground
How bad did i mess up by getting it instead of other translations

>>21266268
Ill do you one better.
>femoid translator shits on previous translators while delivering an embarrasing translation herself

>>21268699
it's the better one, right from the first page.

>>21268703
Emily Wilson? kek

>you really should just learn the language but if you're too pleb to do so I guess the 16th century French translation is permissable

>>21268705
Good to know, thanks fanbuddy

>>21268723
name of book?

>>21269432
Ezra Pound about Homer, think it's ABC of Reading.

>>21266268
>Read Penguin translation of the Upanishads
>Shits on the older Penguin translation by someone else