Embellished translations

Nicholas Gevers · 07 Dec 2010, 07:41 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: vermoulian at yahoo.com (Nicholas Gevers)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 23:41:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Embellished translations
Message-ID: <576272.27556.qm at web32106.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Re the question of whether GW the "translator" might embellish the words of 
Latro or Severian in any way: *Soldier of Sidon* is dedicated to Sir Richard 
Burton, who in the late nineteenth century produced translations of *The Arabian 
Nights* that were substantially more colourful in diction than the original 
Arabic texts. Although Burton was a much more scrupulous translator than certain 
others, who added entire episodes to the *Nights* and tacked on extra erotic 
detail, sometimes to unintentionally hilarious effect.

--Nick Gevers.

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