{ Sunday, June 8, 2003 }
I wish Gail's Translation Site were ready for some posting. I read in interesting conversation between Kenzaburo Oe and his English translator John Nathan in Grand Street #63 this afternoon, while basking in the sun and caressed by gentle breezes on the grass by the sea wall.
Oe's style, according to many Japanese readers and critics, has a kind of Western quality to it, and has led some of them to accuse him of writing in translationese. He's apparently read very widely in English and French (as has Murakami) and in this dialogue mentions translations that he's done of Blake's Jerusalem and The Four Zoas. There's an interesting argument about the use of Blake in his book Rouse up , O Young Men of the New Age! which I can't get into here, so I'll quote John Nathan quoting Blanchot at the beginning of their discussion:
I have no idea what Blanchot means by "in a privileged way", but I admire the idea of language being used in such a way that it is different or strange to itself. In translation, some of this strangeness comes across, though it is hard to know if it is the awkwardness of the transposition into English or if it is present in the original.
People have said that Wallace Stevens uses English as if it were French. The book written in English, that most seemed to me as if it were written in a foreign language was a fairly obscure novel known mostly to American Lit grad students called Wieland by Charles Brockdon Brown, a peculiar species of American gothic horror that preceded Poe. The rhythm of the language is stranger, I think, than its subject, though I should preface that by saying I last read it about 10 years ago. The Famished Road by Ben Okri also struck me as being estranged from the language it was written in, as well as, (how's this for all over the map) the radical feminism of Mary Daly who was attempting to build a feminist language. I am intrigued by prose that I never become comfortable reading. Burroughs also qualifies, late Delany...
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I have often wondered about Murakami's Japanese writing and if his love of Western culture (jazz, pop music...) has influenced him so much that he is more easily translated into English and French. Seeing as I only know the latter two and not the former, and do not have enough patience with myself to learn the former, I guess I'll never really know.
I had never heard that "Wallace Stevens uses English as if it were French." That would go a long to explaining why I like him so much.
Rachel | June 18, 2003 5:38 AM