All About Books discussion

The last full week of September is International Interpreters and Translators Week (Sept. 22-30, 2014), which inspired this theme. The 'Interpreters and Translators' Theme challenge is to read a book that was originally written in a language other than that you are reading it in!

Hmmm... I guess that I can count War and Peace here too.

I haven't thought about counting the same book in multiple themes... Any thoughts for or against?

I think it could give a bonus: a book that can fit in more than one theme is even better!!!!
I'm a translator; I have to think about it closely!!

1.Die große Welt (English to German)
2. Verachtung (Danish to German)

For the moment:
Emile Zola, Abbe Mourier's Transgression Read
William Shakespeare, Riccardo III Read
Albert Camus, La Peste Reading now
The first and the third count also for the French challenge, the july one!

You Europeans will beat me by a healthy margin in this category! Although since I started working on the Guardian list, I have begun reading much more 'world' literature.

3. Die Sünde des Abbé Mouret(French to German)
4. Der Zitronentisch : Erzählungen (English to German)

LauraT wrote: "
The first and the third count also for the French ch..."

Zola also counts for Ramadan! (religion and spiriuality)

Jenny wrote: "LauraT wrote: "
The first and the third count also for the French ch..."

Zola also counts for Ramadan! (religion and spiriuality)"

And I had not thought about it!

5. "Zeit der Geborgenheit" – Wallace Stegner (English to German)
6. "Mr. Cruso, Mrs. Barton und Mr. Foe" – J.M. Coetzee (English to German)
7. "Gedichte" – Anna Akhmatova (Russian to German)
8. "Das Uhrenstellinstitut" - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (Turkish to German)

Emile Zola, Abbe Mourier's Transgression Read
William Shakespeare, Riccardo III Read
Albert Camus, La Peste Read
Guy de Maupassant, L'eredità Reading now

1. Cain by Jose Saramago - translated from Portugese.
2. The Reader - translated from German

Petra wrote: "Cain by Jose Saramago - translated from Portugese. An interesting look at God and Cain, through some episodes of the bible. Saramago's writing style is amazing (this is the first of..."

I've always been afraid of reading one if his books, even if more than one person tell me tey're extremely interesting

Laura: your impressions on The Plague? :) I love Camus!

1. Twenty Poems (Russian to English)
2. War and Peace (Russian to English)

Clive James ? Dante's The Divine Comedy ? can anyone enlighten me please?

Tracey wrote: "Clive James ? Dante's The Divine Comedy ? can anyone enlighten me please?"

I don't know anything about Clive James but if you are reading The Divine Comedy in English, it would certainly count!

Clive James? Wasn't he the film critic for "The Obersever" (quality Sunday newspaper in Britain) for years? Australian, witty, very outspoken... or is this a different one?

Nope really is that self same Clive James !

Leslie wrote: "Tracey wrote: "Clive James ? Dante's The Divine Comedy ? can anyone enlighten me please?"

I don't know anything about Clive James but if you are reading The Divine Comedy in English, ..."

I would like to read this book but heard horror stories about poor translations.

Really don't know :( Sorry!

Petra wrote: "Cain by Jose Saramago - translated from Portugese. An interesting look at God and Cain, through some episodes of the bible. Saramago's writing style is amazing (this is the first of..."

Petra I love Saramago, but Cain is one I haven't read yet. And Laura, you'd like Saramago I am sure! Try Blindness or The Cave!

9. Eine Geschichte des Lesens - Alberto Manguel (English to German)
10. Das Hausboot Am Nil - Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic to German)
11. Erinnerungen an Anna Achmatowa - Nadezhda Mandelstam (Russian to German)

1 Emile Zola, Abbe Mourier's Transgression Read french to english (!!! Couldn't find the italian translation!!!)
2 William Shakespeare, Riccardo III Read english to italian
3 Albert Camus, La Peste Read french to italian
4 Guy de Maupassant, L'eredità Read french to italian
5 Margherite Duras, Moderato Cantabile Read french to italian
6 Johannes Hosle, Prima di tutti i secoli Read german to itlian
7 Grace Paley, Più tardi nel pomeriggio Reading now english to italian

Tracey wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Tracey wrote: "Clive James ? Dante's The Divine Comedy ? can anyone enlighten me please?"

I don't know anything about Clive James but if you are reading [book:The Divine Comedy|665..."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
This is the version I read, Tracey

I have read two interesting translated works:

1. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz (From Polish to English).
2. Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset (From Norwegian to English).

3. Outrage (Icelandic to English)

7 Grace Paley, Più tardi nel pomeriggio Read english to italian
8 Kevin Wilson, La famiglia Fang Reading now english to italian
9 Israel Joshua Singer, La famiglia Karnowsky Reading now hiddish to italian

3. Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald. (From German to English).
4. Time for Outrage by Stephane Hessel. (From French to English).

LauraT wrote: "I've always been afraid of reading one if his books, even if more than one person tell me tey're extremely interesting
..."

Laura, I just saw this post. Sorry to have missed it.
I had tried reading Jose Saramago's Blindness a few years back and could not get into it at all. I have avoided his books ever since. I thought I'd give him another try and because this book was small, this was it.
I'm glad I read it. I liked it and will give Jose Saramago's other books a try......maybe even give Blindness another attempt. :D

12. Der Gotteswahn – Richard Dawkins (English to German)
13. Das Fischkonzert – Halldor Laxness (Icelandic to German)
14. Evening – Anna Akhmatova (Russian to English)
15. Ein schlichtes Herz – Gustave Flaubert (French to German)
16. Gnade – Toni Morrison (English to German)
17. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (English to German)

5. Echoes of an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz. (From Arabic to English).

4. The Immoralist (French to English)

1) Belle per sempre (English to Italian)
2) Una donna spezzata (French to Italian)
3) La vita davanti a séThe Life Before Us (French to Italian)
4) Avevano spento anche la luna (English to Italian)
5) Gente di Dublino (English to Italian)
6) Le braci (Hungarian to Italian)

8 Kevin Wilson, La famiglia Fang Read english to italian
9 Weatherly Anna, La rivincita delle mogli Reading now english to italian
10 Israel Joshua Singer, La famiglia Karnowsky Reading now hiddish to italian

How is the latter Laura?

Jenny wrote: "How is the latter Laura?"

I'm loving it! But I generally love this family saga, and those written by the Singer brothers partucularly. We're arriving at the nazi period ... alway a big issue in their literature, of course ...

6. The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino. (From Italian to English).

1. Devdas Bengali-English
2. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke Swedish-English

7) Dove nessuno ti troverà (Spanish to Italian)

8) Fraulein Else (from German to Italian)

7. Cassandra by Christa Wolf. (From German to English).

10 Weatherly Anna, Chelsea WivesRead english to italian
11 Marie-Aude Murail, Oh, boy ! Reading now french to italian
12 Israel Joshua Singer, La famiglia Karnowski Reading now yddish to italian

9) Kafka on the Shore (Japanese to Italian)

10) Felidae (German to Italian)

8. L'Ora del Diavolo by Fernando Pessoa. (From Portuguese to Italian).

1.Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Spanish to English.

11) La bambina che salvava i libri (English to Italian)

11 Marie-Aude Murail, Oh Boy Read french to italian
12 Israel Joshua Singer, La famiglia Karnowsky Read yddish to italian
13 Susane Collins, Hunger Games Read english to italian
14 Julie Anne Peters, Tra mamma e Jo Read english to italian
15 Emile Zola, His Eccellency Reading now french to english
16 Plato, La Repubblica Reading now greek to Italian

9. Basta Così by Wislawa Szymborska. (From Polish to Italian).