Looking forward to a new book! |
My editor at New Directions Publishing just sent me the cover image for the book I finished translating in August--have a look! I love it. The book is scheduled to appear in June 2007 (it's being co...
Posted by Siddhartha on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:30:00 PST |
Robert Walser's The Assistant - page proofs! |
So I'm reading page proofs for this wonderful novel. Would you like to see some samples? He took second helpings of each of the dishes on the table. It's true, he had arrived here from the depths ...
Posted by Siddhartha on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:59:00 PST |
Moving on... |
Starting to translate a new book is like figuring out how to be an all-new person for a while. I've started working on a new novel, to be called THE BOOK OF WORDS, by the East German author Jenny Erp...
Posted by Siddhartha on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:07:00 PST |
Four professionals' answers to the translation challenge |
Stop reading right now if you haven't yet taken the translation challenge and wish to (see previous blog entry). Here are the final polished versions of the paragraph in question as rendered by four ...
Posted by Siddhartha on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:41:00 PST |
Do-it-yourself translation - flex your muscles! |
Most of the real work of translation (and the opportunity for the translator to flex his/her creative muscles) comes in the revision process. Want to try your hand at it? Here's a sample paragraph i...
Posted by Siddhartha on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:18:00 PST |
Literary translation, life in the trenches |
It can be tough working freelance (it means you always have to put together enough jobs to add up to an income, and the income is never particularly large), but it also offers so much freedom it's ama...
Posted by Siddhartha on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:40:00 PST |
First review! |
Well, Siddhartha just got his first real review (rather than just an announcement of publication), in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal! The good news is that the reviewer, Akhil Sharma, goes o...
Posted by Siddhartha on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:53:00 PST |
One paragraph of Hesse - four translations |
Hesse's Siddhartha has been translated into English from the original German several times (the first was in 1957, 35 years after the book first appeared in German). All the translations differ from ...
Posted by Siddhartha on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:06:00 PST |
Siddhartha and Hesse |
Hermann Hesse started writing Siddhartha in 1919, not long after the end of the first World War. No one had ever seen a war like this before - it was the first major conflict of the twentieth century...
Posted by Siddhartha on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:02:00 PST |
