{"id":256446,"date":"2007-09-28T16:06:46","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/28\/andrey-kurkov-and-the-translators\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:21","slug":"andrey-kurkov-and-the-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/28\/andrey-kurkov-and-the-translators\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrey Kurkov and the Translators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Literary Saloon details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200709c.htm#an8\">what went wrong<\/a> with the recent translation of Andrey Kurkov&#8217;s <em>The President&#8217;s Last Love<\/em>. I loved his <em>Death and the Penguin<\/em> and <em>A Matter of Life and Death<\/em>, so it&#8217;s too bad that something not-so-good seems to have happened to his latest book.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes the translator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2007\/09\/15\/bokur115.xml\">just gets it plain wrong<\/a> &#8211; one character, posing for a sexy photo shoot, apparently &#8220;lies on the floor [and] flays her arms and legs&#8221; &#8211; and he, or she, also has a habit of switching tenses in mid-sentence (&#8220;Now I know what my wife wished for, it only remained to think about what I wanted&#8221;).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Literary Saloon details what went wrong with the recent translation of Andrey Kurkov&#8217;s The President&#8217;s Last Love. I loved his Death and the Penguin and A Matter of Life and Death, so it&#8217;s too bad that something not-so-good seems to have happened to his latest book. Sometimes the translator just gets it plain wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[3666,2136,1646,6726,6716],"class_list":["post-256446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-andrey-kurkov","tag-ejvl","tag-review","tag-translator-fight","tag-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256446","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328046,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256446\/revisions\/328046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}