Leave me out of this

[richard baillie]

Murakami translator Jay Rubin commented in "HK and the music of Words"
the difficulty in translating japanese to english (and vice versa)

problems with nuance, tense structure etc

i admit the playboy article suggests a bit of a nothing interview in any
case but the translation maybe didn't help TRP's (if it were he) cause



http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099455447/026-7904456-3256447?

v=glance&n=266239



On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:03:02 -0400, "Anville Azote"
<anville.azote at gmail.com> said:
> On 7/27/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Okay, I've changed this ...
> >
> [snip]
> > To this ...
> >
> > "An article purporting to be the transcript of an with
> > Pynchon in the wake of the on the U.S. appeared in the
> > December 2001 issue of Playboy Japan. Although Melanie
> > Jackson, the author's wife and literary agent,
> > reportedly denied the authenticity of this interview
> > when contacted by a third party, Playboy Japan has
> > reportedly maintained its authenticity."
> >
> 
> I recall asking if anyone had a source for that back in February, but
> I never got a reply, and the issue apparently slipped through the
> manifold cracks in the Wikipedia editing process.  Little did I know
> the bad blood which lurked behind that innocuous statement. . . .
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thomas_Pynchon/Archive02
> 
> Maybe someone could change the second "reportedly" to "reputedly"?
> I'm sure that would make the whole situation so much better!  :-/
> 
> -anv.
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