{"id":264096,"date":"2008-08-20T13:34:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/08\/20\/interesting-translation-issue\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:55","slug":"interesting-translation-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/08\/20\/interesting-translation-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Translation Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reading the new translation of Proust&#8217;s <i>In Search of Lost Time,<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/ivebeenreadinglately.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/question-of-translation.html\">Levi Stahl<\/a> came across a really interesting translation issue. In &#8220;The Prisoner,&#8221; when Madame Verdurin suggests inviting Comtesse de Mole to a party, the Baron de Charlus insults her: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>&#8220;Well, well, there&#8217;s no accounting for tastes,&#8221; M. de Charlus had replied, and if yours, dear lady, is to spend your time with Mrs Todgers, Sarah Gamp and Mrs Harris I have nothing to say, but please let it be on an evening when I am not here.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fans of Dickens will recognize these three women as characters from <i>Martin Chuzzlewit<\/i>&#8212;and their names, you can surely imagine, were quite a surprise coming out of the Baron&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A note accompanying the line explains:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>M. de Charlus&#8217;s reference in the original is to Mme Pipelet, Mme Gibout and Mme Joseph Prudhomme, minor creations of hte nineteenth-century writers Eugene Sue and Henri Monnier. They are chosen as examples of women utterly lacking in social distinction: Mme Pipelet, for example, is a concierge. Three comparable characters from Dickens have been substituted.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Levi points out, this isn&#8217;t a huge issue, but it is sort of weird, since in either case&#8212;leaving the names as were, or using ones from Dickens&#8212;an explanatory note is necessary . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reading the new translation of Proust&#8217;s In Search of Lost Time, Levi Stahl came across a really interesting translation issue. In &#8220;The Prisoner,&#8221; when Madame Verdurin suggests inviting Comtesse de Mole to a party, the Baron de Charlus insults her: &#8220;Well, well, there&#8217;s no accounting for tastes,&#8221; M. de Charlus had replied, and if [&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":[1836,14236,14226,5676],"class_list":["post-264096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-levi-stahl","tag-proust","tag-translation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264096","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=264096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357136,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264096\/revisions\/357136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}