{"id":9518,"date":"2011-12-29T23:22:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9518"},"modified":"2017-07-27T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:40:15","slug":"thursday-29th-december-2011-marianne-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9518","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 29th December 2011 – MARIANNE AND I …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… have had a disagreement.<\/p>\n

But it’s not anything to do with our personal life at all – it’s to do with this book. And the only reason really that I mention it is to illustrate the difficulties under which this translation is proceeding.<\/p>\n

And it’s no wonder that no commercial translator would undertake the job. Having this done for the weekend is impossible and I realised that a while ago.<\/p>\n

Part of the plot hinges around an anagram, and without this anagram the story can’t proceed. <\/p>\n

And it’s all very well doing a translation, but to keep the translation down some kind of narrow pathway to represent the author’s literary channels and literary thought is complicated enough, but when there’s a key anagram to be thrown in at a crucial point, it’s snot, aye<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So after much binding in the marsh, I came up with an absolutely belting anagram for the English translation of my phrase, but unfortunately it doesn’t quite correspond with the literary sense that Marianne is trying to convey. <\/p>\n

I’ve spent all morning trying to find an appropriate phrase (which is required to be used in a considerable part of this book) just so that its anagram would be a powerful one. But it’s not suitable, and that’s that.<\/p>\n

So it’s back to the drawing board, Cecil.<\/p>\n

Yes, I hadn’t realised what I was letting myself in for when I volunteered for this task. It’s certainly … errr … challenging.<\/p>\n

And I suppose that it’s that in itself that is doing me good. <\/p>\n

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