Gothicism in Postmodern Anglo-American Narratives and Media

[Otto]

What I criticize is that the words "translated literally" after 
"Pynchon's title" are missing in the formulation.

Otto

jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> As it's written. The translator told the guy who wrote the article 
> that he found the title _Gravity's Rainbow_ somewhat meaningless. 
> There's nothing there about convincing Pynchon that the title was 
> meaningless.
>
> Not being fluent in German I'm not qualified to comment on the 
> rewriting of the title for the German version of the novel. But I 
> suspect that in a literal translation of the title from English to 
> German some of the denotations of the word "gravity" are lost, for 
> example, and that the phrase itself ends up somewhat bland and 
> one-dimensional (and, yes, meaningless). My guess is that the 
> translator went for the pun on "parabel" because it opened up 
> connotations and possibilities of meaning in the same way that the 
> phrase "Gravity's Rainbow" does in English. I agree that it's likely 
> that Pynchon approved (of) the translated title. And I agree that all 
> translations are, in the first instance, interpretations.
>
> best
>
> On 20/08/2005, at 9:07 PM, Otto wrote:
>
>> How do you read it?
>>
>> jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, it doesn't imply that at all.
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>>> The way it is said here seems to imply that Thomas Piltz had 
>>>> convinced Pynchon that the title "Gravity's Rainbow" is "somewhat 
>>>> meaningless" which of course is nonsense.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> The (adequate) German translation of
>>>>> the book (publ. by Rowohlt Publ.) bears the florid title /Die 
>>>>> Enden der
>>>>> Parabel/ ('the ends of the parable/ parabola') because the translator
>>>>> (as he admitted to me (H.U.M.) found Pynchon's title somewhat 
>>>>> meaningless.
>>>>> http://webdoc.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic97/mohr/4_97.html
>>>>


	

	
		
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