Dear List,
Fellini once took a film company to court for defamation. It had produced an English dubbed version that was an insult to the artistry of his Italian original. And I vaguely remember reading that Nabokov took up writing in English because the first English translation of Camera Obscura was so flawed.
Hugs & kisses,
Tom
On 2016-02-26 00:54, Hen Hanna wrote:
I'd appreciate help on any of these questions about VN and translation.
1. Is there an anecdote about VN checking a sample translation
done by a translator, finding it poor and firing the translator?
I have not found such an episode in
[Vladimir Nabokov : The American Years] by Brian Boyd.
2. Are there similar anecdotes involving other authors?
I just read one about Alexander Pope, but it is not
quite what I've been looking for
(because the translator Pope hired was cheating).
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation
>>> Comparison of a back-translation with the original text is
sometimes used as a check on the accuracy
of the original translation <<<
This makes sense in theory, but a translation would have to be
really poor for a back-translation check to be useful.
Was back-translation actually used by VN or someone else?
Thank you. HH
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