16.10.2006

The Gnu-Antelope

Regular readers will remember that I've been chipping away with a friend at a translation of The Golden Calf, the beloved Stalin-era Soviet comic novel. Today I posted a rough draft of Chapter 6, in which our criminal protagonists pile into a car and begin embezzling their way south to Chernomorsk.

As ever, you can follow the analysis and evisceration in the translation LiveJournal comment thread. I'm not a big believer in stretching the open source metaphor, but the collective discussion on that site has been amazing. Most of it is in English and may be fun to follow if you have any interest in problems of translation.