Saturday, July 12, 2008

Fifty for fifty ...

... Fifty outstanding translations from the last fifty years? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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3 comments:

  1. Peter Rozovsky10:24 PM

    Is there a missing link here?
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    Detectives Beyond Borders
    "Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
    http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/

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  2. Dave Lull10:49 PM

    Yes, to The Literary Saloon.

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  3. Peter Rozovsky11:11 PM

    Thanks. I've just read Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh, which, like quite a number of recent translations, invokes Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. We must be in some kind of a publishing golden age for high-profile literary translations.
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    Detectives Beyond Borders
    "Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
    http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/

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