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I read from the Book Standard that you can now read some of the Western classics in Chinese:
Chinese Publishing Initiatives
and some of the books available in Chinese are Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. As you should know by now, being faithful readers of my blog ;-), that my most favorite book from college is Melville's Moby Dick. Not. I wonder how they are going to translate "There she blows!" into Chinese. Heeheehee.
I just realized that those titles are all names of the major characters in the novels. Isn't that strange? I wonder whether they would "rename" them into something different? Quixote would be difficult to transcribe into Pinyin, I'd imagine.
Some of you are living in different countries. When you pick up a translated version of an English book--classic or romance--is the title very, very different? Laur?
This is the Dutch cover for Into Danger:
I think it means "Blind Trust." I wish I have a copy but my former publishing house never did send me any ;-(. I also haven't found any image of the Macedonian or Finnish translations yet, so if any of you happen to see it on cyberspace or OWN one, please contact me!
Friday, September 01, 2006
A Book By Any Other Name...
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2 comments:
LOL, when you said western classics I was thinking Lous L'Amour and Zane Grey, duh!
That sucks that they didn't send you the foreign copies of your books, that would be cool to see the different covers that they come up with. Good luck in your search chick!
Leiha,
LOL about the western classics...yah, I forgot it could be taken that way! Tells you that I don't read Louis L'mour.
I hope to get a copy of these books one day because it'd be fun to see my book in a foreign language! I know The Hunter was sold to a Macedonian publisher recently and I'm hoping that I'd at least get a copy of that.
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