{"id":286536,"date":"2011-08-11T19:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/08\/11\/interview-with-philip-boehm-read-this-next\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:17:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:17:02","slug":"interview-with-philip-boehm-read-this-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/08\/11\/interview-with-philip-boehm-read-this-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Philip Boehm [Read This Next]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who didn&#8217;t get enough from the other week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthisnext.org\/27\/an-ermine-in-czernopol\">Read This Next on Gregor von Rezzori&#8217;s <em>An Ermine of Czernopol<\/em>,<\/a> we&#8217;ve added <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthisnext.org\/33\/an-ermine-in-czernopol-interview\">an interview with the translator, Philip Boehm.<\/a> Here&#8217;s a little excerpt: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Lily Ye:<\/b> What did you think of the way in which Rezzori is able to voice different characters (as there is a lot of direct quoting in this novel) and how did you approach the translation of these different registers and argots into English?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Philip Boehm:<\/b> First I have to \u201chear\u201d the voices in the original. Then I try to find a suitable musical key in English. I also work professionally as a theater director and am often struck by how that activity overlaps my work as a translator\u2014interpreting the text, envisioning the script, clearly defining characters, etc.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In rendering the accents and argots, it\u2019s important to bear in mind that a Russian inflection, say, sounds different to a German ear than to an English one. There are also occasions when it\u2019s best to know the proper mispronunciation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full text <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthisnext.org\/33\/an-ermine-in-czernopol-interview\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthisnext.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/762.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who didn&#8217;t get enough from the other week&#8217;s Read This Next on Gregor von Rezzori&#8217;s An Ermine of Czernopol, we&#8217;ve added an interview with the translator, Philip Boehm. Here&#8217;s a little excerpt: Lily Ye: What did you think of the way in which Rezzori is able to voice different characters (as there is [&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":[41806,5706,41816,41416,41826,40786],"class_list":["post-286536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ermine-of-czernopol","tag-german-literature","tag-gregor-von-rezzori","tag-lily-ye","tag-philip-boehm","tag-read-this-next"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286536","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=286536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343256,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286536\/revisions\/343256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}