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Re: New xlation 5 weeks in a balloon

From: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:14:05 +0200
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Dear Norm and Brian,

thank you very much for your mails. In fact, the copyright situation of the book is a little bit difficult, but when the book is out of print, the situation will change, I think. Eventually, I will make a new revised version in english or french. Today I had a very touching experience when a homeless man came to me saying that, loving Jules Verne, he had read my book, "but not all the 4000 pages"! Apparently, it's really a problem of size...
Cheers, Volker

>
> 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!
> >
> > > ------------ Pùvodní zpráva ------------
> > > Od: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
> > > Pøedmìt: 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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