RV: Translation II

[Saurio]

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De: Otto Sell <o.sell at telda.net>
Para: pynchon-l at waste.org <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Fecha: Sábado 27 de Mayo de 2000 1:30 AM
Asunto: Re: Translation II


>Saurio
>could you please give me the opening sentence of GR in Spanish - I think of
>collecting the sentence in as many languages as possible.

Un grito atraviesa el espacio. Ya ocurrió otras veces, pero ahora no hay
nada con qué compararlo.

It was translated by Antoni Pigrau for Ediciones Grijalbo in 1978. I don´t
know if the Tusquets edition mantains this translation or has a new one.
A.P.´s translation is "acceptable". I haven´t checked it with the original
text (I don´t own it, damn!) but you don´t feel the need to do so when
reading it, so it must be good (as opossed to Vineland´s, that after two or
three chapters you begin to feel curious about the original Pynchon text).
BTW, A.P. had a very hard time in the Kenosha Kid section (who won´t!
"difficult to translate" is a very mild description of it) but anyway it
doesn´t hurt the eye too much.

Anyway, last time I read GR was in january 1997 and the second half under
not-so-happy circumstances, so any opinion of its translation is maybe
distorted by the passage of time and the stress lived.

And life goes on.

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