Interview with Elfriede Jelinek on her translation of GR

[rich]

will we ever get a english translation to Die Kinder der Toten? hope so

I realize grim austrian lit isnt for everyone, but I like

dont ask me how many times ive watched the Piano Teacher ;)

rich


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> Looking for something completely different, I came across this interview:
>
> http://books.google.de/books?**id=aZ3sWTxXznEC&pg=PA191&lpg=**
> PA191&dq=pynchon+j%C3%BCnger&**source=bl&ots=WI4885f0P-&sig=**
> Jf8OfWaXREaPaYDbt-eC9_pTTps&**hl=de&sa=X&ei=YuX4Ufn-**
> BMbDtQa2m4DYCA&redir_esc=y#v=**onepage&q=pynchon%20j%C3%**BCnger&f=false<http://books.google.de/books?id=aZ3sWTxXznEC&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191&dq=pynchon+j%C3%BCnger&source=bl&ots=WI4885f0P-&sig=Jf8OfWaXREaPaYDbt-eC9_pTTps&hl=de&sa=X&ei=YuX4Ufn-BMbDtQa2m4DYCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=pynchon%20j%C3%BCnger&f=false>
>
> (For the start go to page 189; the pages 194, 195 and 199 are not shown.)
>
> Here are some samples in ad-hoc translation:
>
> "It was overwhelming, and out of literary enthusiasm, without knowing what
> this actually means, I worked eight till ten hours on it [the German
> GR-translation] every day over a period of three years."
>
> "And since he never was in Germany, he also reproduced the typos, f.e.
> 'Siemens-Schuchert' instead of 'Siemens-Schuckert'. Exactly the same typo
> was in a book on Siemens someone bought for me as a present second hand on
> Times Square. Such things are very fascinating. Like detective work."
>
> "Later, during the translation process, I contacted a former officer from
> the OSS who could explain to me a lot of things related to secret services
> and, of course, also weapon technology."
>
> "Translating belongs to the most difficult things of all; it will never be
> completely taken over by computers."
>
>
>
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