Translated Books "How is the read experience affected?"
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- In this video, I read two translated japanese works and dicussed how an authors orignal artist vision can be skewed just by the fact its translated. As well as tackle questions like "who then gains authorship if an orignal work is changed?" and "how langauge plays a role in both novels and cinema?"
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Reading books in translation really adds a whole nother level of enjoyment to the experience for me
Great video! I am a Japanese Language and Literature major, this term we talked about the same concept in our literature class! Edward Hall identifies Northern Europeans and Americans as low-context culture people, meaning they are more explicit and they tend to take things literally while he identifies Japanese as high-context culture people. For example, in English, the subject is mostly in the sentence to elaborate on who is the one doing the action, meanwhile in Japanese, the subject is not included most of the time! You have to figure out who is the one doing the action by the context. This difference can cause translation to be altered more when it is translated to English rather than Turkish (which is also high-context based.) I enjoyed watching the video a lot, keep up the great work!
this is really interesting because i faced the same dilemma when i was reading crime and punishment. i had two copies in my hand, both decades apart, and could definitely notice the difference in words and the writing style. love the video !!!
some books just have a particular significance to the language that is it is written on, such as books that have strong themes of culture with internal refrences can make it hard to translate and maintain it's charm
Dazai's No Longer Human is fantastic! That being said, it was more or less his magnum opus, so I would recommend checking out some of his other works first, such as The Setting Sun and The Flowers of Buffoonery, both of which are translated by the same person (Donald Keene)
Thank you for your insight on Dazai! Those both sound great! I will definitely check them out!
This video is great!!!!! Definitely deserves more recognition it was literally so engaging 🔥🔥
Thank you so much!!l