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Re: New xlation 5 weeks in a balloon

From: <1001~at~atlanticbb.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:17:15 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Dear Volker,

Sorry the biography didn't sell well. I think we should try to prevent this
work from sinking into copyright obscurity like the early works of Walter
Miller.

If it can be worked out I am sure Vernians could produce an English
translation which could be published privately on Lulu. If we had 20 or so
volunteers
each doing 30 pages that would get the work done. With machine translation
assistance the project would not be too onerous.

Well not a perfect translation, but here today is better than never
tomorrow.

Who holds the translation rights by the way? I might assume further we
could store an "unofficial" translation on a club website that was
accessible only to members, so as to avoid "publishing" a la "Mysterious
Island".? and not to show up on Google!.
nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Rychlík" <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: New xlation 5 weeks in a balloon


> 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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