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Re: Chapters in Mistress Branican

From: <BGYKrauth~at~t-online.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:18:58 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Dear Garmt,

I have the Magasin and the regular illustrated edition available and can have a look for but not before Wednesday or late tuesday evening. If nobody else meanwhile gives you a solution I will do. Then also maybe Volker is back and can tell about the small editions...

Brgds

Bernhard

-----Original Message-----
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:51:03 +0100
Subject: Chapters in Mistress Branican
From: Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Hi all,

As I may have told you, the Dutch JV Society is working on a Dutch
translation of Mistress Branican, one of the few novels that have
remained untranslated so far.

We have reached the beginning of volume 2, and ran into something odd.
In some editions of the novel, chapter III includes the entire
explanation of Jos Meritt's hatmania, and chapter IV begins with
Mistress Branican leaving Adelaide (see e.g. the version at
http://jv.gilead.org.il/zydorczak/bran00.html). In several other
editions, chapter III ends in the middle of Jos Meritt's story, and
describes the goal of his present journey at the beginning of chapter
IV (see the Gutenberg text at http://jv.gilead.org.il/pg/17914-8.txt).

This discrepancy occurs in French books and online texts, as well as
in translations in several languages. I get the feeling that there
have been two different versions in the original Hetzel series. For
example, the Magasin version may have been different from the books,
or the in-18 may have been different from the in-8. Subsequent
editions, whether in French or translated to other languages, would
then differ according to which version they are based on.

I would like to ask those of you who have access to the original
Hetzel editions to check where one chapter ends and where the other
begins. In my opinion, it makes more sens to have the entire Jos
Meritt section in chapter III, but for the Dutch translation we would
like to stick to the original French as much as possible.

Cheers,
Garmt.
Received on Sat 21 Feb 2009 - 17:19:11 IST

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