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Found In Translation Dept.
Between working on The Underground Sun's 2nd draft, working (for actual money), and waiting for a whole Imelda Marcos's closet full of shoes to drop - which really can't happen fast enough, let me tell you - I have been making that much more of an attempt to read. Not newspapers, not blogs; books. The books I stuck on my shelf and told myself I ( Read more... ) -
The Big Takedown Dept.
I tweeted about this earlier, but since both Twitter and Tweetdeck are being unreliable pieces of junk (trying to access the MT online editor in Chrome isn't much better; the rich-text editor doesn't even come up when I select it from the dropdown ostensibly because something refused to finish loading; the concept of a "robust web application" ( Read more... ) -
Words Worth Dept.
A very good piece about translator Juliet Carpenter:
The bright career of a literary 'shadow hero' | The Japan Times Online
Carpenter isn't a stickler for literal meaning. She likens translation to acting, in that translators take words written by someone else and bring them to life in a different form, based on the translator's own knowledge and ( Read more... ) -
Lost In Translators Dept.
It is not immersive or evocative. It is distracting and annoying. It is all but unreadable. It is tin-eared in a way that I suspect only someone utterly convinced of the necessity of such an approach could overlook.
I'm not sure if I should blame the translator, Akemi Wegmüller, or VIZ's editorial board, for this mistake in judgment. I've seen ( Read more... ) -
In Print Dept.
AICN Anime has news on a couple of upcoming books in translation.
Ryu Murakami's Audition novel, source for the Takashi Miike movie, will be released in North America in June.[*]
The next Yasutaka Tsutsui (Paprika, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) translated novel will be a Alma Books UK release of The Maid, scheduled for March 15.
The Maid was ( Read more... ) -
Suehiro's First Gasp Dept.
It's been reported elsewhere, but worth echoing here: Last Gasp is publishing a previously-untranslated Suehiro Maruo title in English, The Strange Tale of Panorama Island. This one sounds more straightforwardly surreal and strange than out-and-out grotesque for Maruo, but we'll see. I still owe people reviews of Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show ( ( Read more... )
