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Re: Svar: Illustrated translations of Le Superbe Orénoque ?

From: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:38:18 -0400
Cc: Lejf Rasmussen <Lejf.Rasmussen~at~psy.ku.dk>, Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~machin-truc.com>
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On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Lejf Rasmussen wrote:

> Dear Terry,
>
> In my collection I have a french Hachette green-cloth edition
> from 1939
> illustrated by Henri Faivre. There are not many, and the text is
> apparentely heavily abbreviated (255 pages total). If interested,
> I could send you scans of the drawings.
>
> Best wishes,
> Lejf

Thanks, Lejf, very much -- but I've been able to review that Hachette
edition.

As you observed, the text and images have been heavily abridged. In
this example, it is interesting to see which of the Roux images were
omitted during that process. It is not always the case that images
were removed because they corresponded to a passage of the text that
was omitted; there seems to be some other method at work, as images
that are, as it were, doubles of textual passages that were retained
have also been removed. (These observations presume, of course that
there *is* a method to the Bibliothèque verte editions... ;-) )

TH

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Terry Harpold
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Department of English
University of Florida

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