Other Language Translations: How good are they?
Posted: 27 Jun 2008 20:58
I seem to remember posting something about the Japanese translation of Dune over on Dune Novels, but won't be able to retrieve it until Monday (home IP still blocked and all that ).
I've been looking at the translation of the opening epigraph from a Russian version I found online (in connection with the Galach Project ) and while my Russian is still at the read-with-dictionary-and-grammar-close-by level, it looks extremely free (so free that I'm going to consider it BAD).
Has anyone read a Russian version? How was it?
Expanding, those of you who have read Dune in another language (esp. your native one) in addition to the original in English, how do they compare?
(Afterthought: please include translator name(s) and publisher if info is handy! )
I've been looking at the translation of the opening epigraph from a Russian version I found online (in connection with the Galach Project ) and while my Russian is still at the read-with-dictionary-and-grammar-close-by level, it looks extremely free (so free that I'm going to consider it BAD).
Has anyone read a Russian version? How was it?
Expanding, those of you who have read Dune in another language (esp. your native one) in addition to the original in English, how do they compare?
(Afterthought: please include translator name(s) and publisher if info is handy! )