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Re: New xlation 5 weeks in a balloon

From: Jan Rychlík <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:44:23 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Even the 3 novels, that's a big undertaking if they are translated with the special responsibility a Vernian has compared to other translators!

> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
> Předmět: Re: New xlation 5 weeks in a balloon
> Datum: 20.9.2007 19:20:19
> ----------------------------------------
> Dear Norm,
>
> thank you very much - but translating all the Voyages... what an undertaking!
> No, that's an error. In fact, I'm the editor of 5 Verne titles, and I translated
> 3 of them (Centre of Earth, From Earth to Moon und 20,000 leagues - the last to
> be published in november), the other two titles are Around the moon and 80 Days
> by other translators, only the notes, commentaries, the postface and the
> chronology of Verne's life and the specific novel are mine. you see: no 5
> weeks.
>
> As for the biography (same publischer, Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf), critics
> were very kind, but it sold not well (560 pages - too voluminous?) and will
> disappear from market in next time...
>
> cheers, Volker
>
> > According to JVNews Volker Dehs, author of the definitive biography ( in
> German) or the life of Jules Verne, has just published a new translation of 5
> weeks in a balloon (also in German), number V001 in the JVE sequencing of the
> Voyages Extraordinaire. Volker and I accidentaly stayed at the same small hotel
> in Amiens at the Mondial in 2005. My question and suspiscion is that isVolker is
> starting with V001 and intends to progress through all the Voyages in order
> (German grundlichkeit), a mamoth undertaking. ? Good luck Volker!
> >
> > nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
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