I found so much information on translations of Madame Bovary that I had to split this post into two! Part 2 focuses on 7 translations published from 1992 to 2011, including the popular Davis translation, and gives information about a few related books.
I found so much information on translations of Madame Bovary that I had to split this post into two! Part 1 of this post talks about the history of the novel and the challenge of translating it. The post gives information about 11 translations published from 1886 to 1965, including the original Marx-Aveling translation.
I found so much information on translations of Don Quixote that I had to split this post into two! Part 2 focuses on 7 translations published from 2000 to 2020, including the popular Grossman translation, and gives information about a few related books.
I found so much information on translations of Don Quixote that I had to split this post into two! Part 1 of this post talks about the history of the novel, the challenge of translating it, and the pronunciation and spelling of the title. The post gives information about 14 translations published from 1620 to 1995, including the popular Ormsby translation.
Dostoevsky died before writing the second half of the two-part story he wanted to tell with these characters, but this half is nevertheless a much-admired achievement.
Apart from The Bible, The Little Prince is the most translated work in the world!
The 1942 Bambi movie, re-released in 1988, is a fixture of my childhood. I recently learned that it started out as a novel by an Austrian Jew.
And now for something completely different… Penguin Classics is throwing their weight behind a Persian epic poem about star-crossed lovers Layla and Majnun.
So you’re going to read War and Peace in English. A worthy ambition. But do you want the embedded French passages translated into English in the text itself, or in footnotes?
Now you can read Solaris, Stanislaw Lem’s best-known novel, in an English translation made directly from the original Polish!
