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Old 10-12-2010, 03:59 PM   #31
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20,000 Leagues under the Sea, but ONLY the Walter James Miller or the Walter James Miller + Frederick Paul Walter translations. The original translation was a hideous hack job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20,000_...a#Translations

Of Dante's Inferno, I favor the John Ciardi translation.
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Old 10-12-2010, 04:08 PM   #32
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Jay Rubin's translation of many of Haruki Murakami's novels are superb. Not only does he understand Japanese, which Murakami writes in, he also understands the literaryness of the books.
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The responses were funny, I particularly liked this one.

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I've added a response to the review, and suggest that we all do!

PS - I recommend that you click on FlamingMudkip's name and read his other reviews - four pages' worth!

Thanks Amy!
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For me two books, the Robert Fitzgerarld translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey. In my opinion these translations are closer to the Homeric texts.
I think personally that the Richard Lattimore translations are better.
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As for German and Polish Irecommend Erik Simon as translator, Having Sapkowskis short stories in original (the witcher prequel books) and having read the german translation I think he does a unspeakably great job. gets the jokes and - am not sure how to say/explain it. he gets the "flow" or "flavour" every language has.
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