The Professor and the Madman
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… in translation?
Leland
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Aug 08, 2013 08:30AM
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Aug 07, 2013 11:05PM
Has this book been translated into any languages other than English? This is one of those books that make me think I should translate them into Esperanto. I hope to make the attempt. But I'd like to see one or more other-language versions first, to see how they have handled the rather obvious problems involved in translating a book so deeply mired in English into anything else.
If anyone is familiar with any such versions, I'd be most grateful for a referrral.
Ah, now I see that foreign language editions get lumped under "other editions" here at Goodreads, and there are titles listed in Italian, German, French, Portuguese, something using the Arabic alphabet, and either Finnish or possibly Estonian:
L'assassino più colto del mondo. Una storia di follia e amore per i libri nell'Inghilterra vittoriana
Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte. Eine wahre Geschichte
Le fou et le professeur
O Professor e o louco
جراح كراوثورن (I think when I cut-and-pasted this the letters got all garbled)
Professori ja hullu
The trick is to find one of these (and not one of the last two, since I don't know those languages) that I can actually get. The Italian version appears to be out of print and only available from libraries in Italy according to WorldCat.
Now, since finding those six versions last night, I've discovered that "more details" confirms Arabic and Finnish as the two languages I was uncertain of, and I've also noticed Dutch and Spanish versions that I apparently skipped right over last night. But the Spanish version raises an editorial question with respect to the Goodreads system. The title as given is incorrect. I suppose this means I need to find a librarian. ¡The listing says "Profesor Yelloco", whereas the title is actually "El profesor y el loco"! So, ¿how does one go about correcting typos in the Goodreads card catalog?
If anyone is familiar with any such versions, I'd be most grateful for a referrral.
Ah, now I see that foreign language editions get lumped under "other editions" here at Goodreads, and there are titles listed in Italian, German, French, Portuguese, something using the Arabic alphabet, and either Finnish or possibly Estonian:
L'assassino più colto del mondo. Una storia di follia e amore per i libri nell'Inghilterra vittoriana
Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte. Eine wahre Geschichte
Le fou et le professeur
O Professor e o louco
جراح كراوثورن (I think when I cut-and-pasted this the letters got all garbled)
Professori ja hullu
The trick is to find one of these (and not one of the last two, since I don't know those languages) that I can actually get. The Italian version appears to be out of print and only available from libraries in Italy according to WorldCat.
Now, since finding those six versions last night, I've discovered that "more details" confirms Arabic and Finnish as the two languages I was uncertain of, and I've also noticed Dutch and Spanish versions that I apparently skipped right over last night. But the Spanish version raises an editorial question with respect to the Goodreads system. The title as given is incorrect. I suppose this means I need to find a librarian. ¡The listing says "Profesor Yelloco", whereas the title is actually "El profesor y el loco"! So, ¿how does one go about correcting typos in the Goodreads card catalog?
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