Barberous
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Good English translation(s) of the original novel?Which would you recommend?
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Phantom On A Budget
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I would recommend the Lowell Bair translation (Bantam Books), personally. I like it a lot. The de Mattos is by far the most abundant, but generally considered the worst translation out there. I've heard mixed reviews about the one by Leonard Wolf, and I don't recall any feedback about the Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier adaptation.
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Brother Marvin Hinten, S.
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Carrie Hernandez had feedback about the Lofficiers on her site before she took it down. I remember that it was good, and that they rectified the somewhat mystifying grasshopper bit (they changed it to a frog..."if the frog croaks, we all croak with it"...something about the pun coming across better).
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Mistress
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| Phantom On A Budget wrote: | | I would recommend the Lowell Bair translation (Bantam Books), personally. I like it a lot. The de Mattos is by far the most abundant, but generally considered the worst translation out there. I've heard mixed reviews about the one by Leonard Wolf, and I don't recall any feedback about the Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier adaptation. |
I think my school library actually has a copy of the Blair translation...I read about halfway through it back in grade 10...it was good, but I lost interest after a while. I think it was because someone took it out for a long time and my interest began waning because I didn't have access to it.
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