>>24557911
>No, they're in German.
Nta and I dont know the how good is celine book in german translation. But here's the introduction to 'War' that are translated to english in 2024
>a more radical approach, with all the
risks that it entails. The tone and style of the original vary considerably. Some passages are akin to what we find in Journey to the End of the Night, hard-hitting but grammatically fairly standard prose, commonly used when the author steps back from the narrative and imparts his granite truths about the world. There are also some snippets of lyrical prose, beautifully evocative and original passages. But most of the novel is written in substandard French. Céline nearly always drops the “ne” in negatives and the
“il” in “il fallait” and “il y avait”, uses the relative pronoun “que” instead of “qui”, reduplicates nouns with pronouns, uses “que” after question words, “avoir” as an auxiliary verb with reflexives, and so on. To replicate this each time it occurs with an equivalent substandard English expression is impossible. But one way to think about translation is that it is the act of imagining what someone would have said in the same situation in a different language. A sensible way of reproducing Céline’s style, therefore, is to introduce comparable substandard expressions throughout in English:
>double negatives, “ain’t”, “was” instead of “were”, “cos” for “because”, and so on. That way, the reader of the English text will have an experience that roughly parallels that of the French reading public.

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