Please please please make some more videos. You're content is fantastic, inspiring and refreshing.
@JeansThoughts8 жыл бұрын
The description of the translator chose to translate the last book is fascinating and makes me want to read it all the more! Great video :D.
@bibliophilereads8 жыл бұрын
I love it when books include translator notes! Thanks :)
@KnowledgelostOrgOnline8 жыл бұрын
as a big advocate of translated fiction, this video pleases me. I'm happy to see you mentioning the translator and also pronouncing Nabokov correctly :)
@bibliophilereads8 жыл бұрын
I tried hard to pronounce Nabokov correctly but I still slipped up a couple of times! Do you have any translated fiction recommendations? :)
@KnowledgelostOrgOnline8 жыл бұрын
I read so much translated fiction, it is hard to recommend just one. However this year I've enjoyed A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Submission by Michel Houellebecq, The Vegetarian by Han Kang, and Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos
@bibliophilereads8 жыл бұрын
+Knowledge Lost I'm hoping to read The Vegetarian soon! Thanks for the recommendations!
@scsreads8 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for these recommendations! I'm trying to read at least 2 translated works this year, and now I have some books to check out :)
@bibliophilereads8 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to see which ones you pick!
@laurasegal49658 жыл бұрын
I actually had no idea Nabokov ever wrote in English himself, and I think it's really cool that the original author would aid in the translation of his/her own writings! :)
@bibliophilereads8 жыл бұрын
I know, right? It's actually a thing, my mom was learning about self-translation in one of her courses and it's pretty interesting because some people wonder if it really is translation, or if it's just rewriting the novel in another language!
@MlleBonbonViolette8 жыл бұрын
Hi ! I also like to read foreign literature (except that for me anything not in French is foreign literature ^^) so I'm glad you made this video. I hope you'll record more videos on this subject later on.
@bibliophilereads8 жыл бұрын
I definitely will!
@evahoo71348 жыл бұрын
I read "the Clown" (Ansichten eines Clowns in German) in high school and really liked it. Would be interesting to read the translated version =). Nice video and good idea =)
@bibliophilereads8 жыл бұрын
Have you read anything else by Böll? I can't wait to read more by him!
@evahoo71348 жыл бұрын
+TheBibliophile Yes, I have read: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (in English probably: The lost honour of Katharina Blum). I can only recommend this novel =). I also want to read some of his satirical short stories!
@Bookupied8 жыл бұрын
Interesting! I still have not read Nabokov.
@bibliophilereads8 жыл бұрын
I hope you do! Read Pnin :)
@brittabohlerthesecondshelf8 жыл бұрын
Great list of books! I love all of the writers you've mentioned & Heinrich Böll's Clown is one of my favorites (well, I am German, so ... :-)). And Claire Lispector is such an underrated writer. And because you enjoy reading translated fiction: there is a goodreads reading group called 'manbookering', run by Max from @welldonebooks. We read the Man booker nominees ofcourse but currently we are invested in the Man Booker International books. I've sent you an invite, maybe you are interested...
@bibliophilereads8 жыл бұрын
What other German books would you recommend? I'll make sure to join that group!
@brittabohlerthesecondshelf8 жыл бұрын
TheBibliophile Well, I don't know your literary taste that well (always good to start recommendations with a disclaimer :-)) but if you are interested in fiction set during the Holocaust then maybe check out Erich Maria Remarque's Spark of Life and Night in Lisbon. And from a contemporary writer, Bernhad Schlink, The Reader. Other contemporary German who might be worth having a look: Julie Zeh, Jenny Erpenbeck and Daniel Kehlmann. All of their books have been translated into English.