tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post4593072260107315577..comments2024-02-24T20:29:17.083-05:00Comments on MINDFUL PLEASURES: What's Wrong With Faulkner's LIGHT IN AUGUSTBRIAN OARDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00695622618831825498noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-14032439122539641142019-12-17T00:00:09.295-05:002019-12-17T00:00:09.295-05:00Interesting commentary!Interesting commentary!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11586537565383497110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-67752470072203057862012-11-15T13:28:21.565-05:002012-11-15T13:28:21.565-05:00´
Hello from Heidelberg,
as a native German with...´<br />Hello from Heidelberg,<br /><br />as a native German with mediocre English skills, I'm more or less dependent of the quality of the translation.<br /><br />And experienced lectors say: Faulkner's prose is not tranlatable 1:1 into a another tongue. <br /><br />Furthermore, his works have been transfered to German by about ten different persons between 1935 and now. According to a few 'experts', some of them - especially Elisabeth Schnack, and Georg Goyert (who also foozled the first German version of Joyce's 'Ulysses') did obviously a very poor job.<br /><br />'Light in August' were translated first by Franz Fein ; his version is considered mediocre at best. A new, better translation is available since 2011, which I haven't read so far.<br /><br /><br />Other tranlaters, like Hans Wollschläger ('Sanctuary') , Albert Hess & Peter Schünemann ('As I Lay Dying') , did, according to some anglicists, a good job.<br /><br />'Absalom, Absalom', done by Hermann Stresau long ago, is still the only available German version; and it ranks, despite of its age, among the better tranlations of Faulkner.<br /><br />So I have to read it one day , I guess. And after that, I will probably try the English original.<br /><br />Though, the only novels I've read so far in original English, were from Graham Greene (Brighton Rock), Scott Fitzgerald (The Beautiful & Damned), Irwin Shaw (Acceptable Losses), William Golding (Lord of the Flies), and Truman Capote ('In cold Blood').<br /><br />But Faulkner will be much more difficult to catch, I guess....<br /><br /><br />Greetings from Germany<br /><br />upiBarolojoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09238593583679697205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-22721691807214776922012-08-16T15:31:34.370-04:002012-08-16T15:31:34.370-04:00Winesburg, Mississippi is pretty hilarious. I take...Winesburg, Mississippi is pretty hilarious. I take your point. I re-read LIA in Augusts now and then and my copy appears almost sacred, a yellowed fragile palimpsest --especially alongside Kindles on the subway. This time I am finding it Faulkner's most brutal text. Not the cruelest, but the most hammering. Somewhat plodding and far more linear than the mighty ones, Absalom/Sound. Hard to read not in terms of style, but in terms of what is happening with straighter less lyrical shots between cause and effect. And I completely agree that some characters are belabored (Winesburg, Mississippi)and that some beg to be more. But I would not shear or shorten. Especially between a couple Kindles with The Hunger. Thanks, Karen4aslongashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06070684415137495173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-74573822084872760972011-09-14T01:02:04.753-04:002011-09-14T01:02:04.753-04:00Hello Brian,
well I came here to see what you mig...Hello Brian, <br />well I came here to see what you might have been writing about art, beauty and terror and the sublime and found Faulkner! my high school love. And you are so right about Light in August. LIA is the first they assign in school and the least interesting; fortunately, we also read several others. I of course much preferred sound and the fury (which I reread a couple years ago, and the others you mentioned (too lazy to type out).<br />I don't know if you remember me (painter and psychoanalyst) but I continue on my path. Hope you are well.<br />julia schwartz <br />www.juliaschwartzart.comjulia schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09306907651957641425noreply@blogger.com