{"id":255846,"date":"2007-09-12T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/12\/genet-in-translation\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:27","slug":"genet-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/12\/genet-in-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Genet in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on the post about the translations of Bulgakov&#8217;s <i>The Master and Margarita<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ellissharp.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/genet-in-translation.html\">The Sharp Side<\/a> has an interesting piece on the English translations of Genet&#8217;s work. It all starts from comparing these two translations:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Description of Darling: height, 5 ft 9 in, weight 165 lbs, oval face, blond hair, blue-green eyes, matt complexion, perfect teeth, straight nose.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(from <i>Our Lady of the Flowers,<\/i> translated by Bernard Frechtman; Faber and Faber paperback, 1990)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Description of Darling. Height 1 metre, 95. Weight: 75 kilos. Face: oval. Hair: blond. Eyes: blue-green. Colouring: matte. Teeth: perfect. Nose: straight. Penis: length when effect 24 centimetres, circumference: 11 centimetres.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(from Edmund White, <i>Genet;<\/i> Vintage paperback, 2004, p. 239.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on the post about the translations of Bulgakov&#8217;s The Master and Margarita, The Sharp Side has an interesting piece on the English translations of Genet&#8217;s work. It all starts from comparing these two translations: Description of Darling: height, 5 ft 9 in, weight 165 lbs, oval face, blond hair, blue-green eyes, matt complexion, perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,6126,5676],"class_list":["post-255846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-genet","tag-translation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362426,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255846\/revisions\/362426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}