{"id":258346,"date":"2007-12-04T14:56:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T14:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/12\/04\/more-wwb-rtw-book-club-posts\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:51","slug":"more-wwb-rtw-book-club-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/12\/04\/more-wwb-rtw-book-club-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"More WWB\/RTW Book Club Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final two posts from the Words Without Borders\/Reading the World book club discussion of Ryunosuke Akutagawa\u2019s Mandarins<\/i> are now online. <\/p>\n

In the first<\/a>, Michael Orthofer discusses the posthumous story “The Life of a Fool” and briefly compares the two available translations (De Wolf’s from Archipelago, Rubin’s from Penguin):<\/p>\n

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De Wolf: He read a book by Anatole France, his head propped up by a pillow of skepticism exuding a rosy fragrance; the presence in that same pillow of a centaur quite escaped his notice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rubin: Pillowing his head on his rose-scented skepticism, he read a book by Anatole France. That even such a pillow might hold a god half-horse, he remained unaware.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I like the De Wolf version considerably better—\u201dpillowing\u201d and \u201cgod half-horse\u201d are just jarring, the second sentence-order feels off —but I\u2019m glad to have the Rubin version too. Using it almost as a gloss I think I have a much better idea of what the Japanese original must be like.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The final post<\/a> focuses on the story “Cogwheels” (or “Spinning Gears” in the Rubin translation). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final two posts from the Words Without Borders\/Reading the World book club discussion of Ryunosuke Akutagawa\u2019s Mandarins are now online. In the first, Michael Orthofer discusses the posthumous story “The Life of a Fool” and briefly compares the two available translations (De Wolf’s from Archipelago, Rubin’s from Penguin): De Wolf: He read a book […]<\/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":[4246,1836,106,146],"class_list":["post-258346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-book-club","tag-cwp","tag-reading-the-world","tag-words-without-borders"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258346","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=258346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360686,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258346\/revisions\/360686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}