Maurice learns that Louise, the object of his romantic fancy, may be leaving Leipzig. Dejected, the words of #Nietzsche's "Zarathustra's Rundgesang" run, like a thread, through his feverish sleep. Only, in my edition, they're in #untranslated German:
O Mensch! Gib Acht!
Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht (etc.)
Common of novels at the time (1908), but unlikely today without a footnoted or parenthetical #translation.
Original with #Translations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarathustra%27s_roundelay
#AmReading MAURICE GUEST
It's #followfriday - Let's start over here with an #introduction. I'm a #academic #librarian who is a #medialibrarian. I'm a member of #ala #fmrt and #videotrust.
I like to follow #indiefilm, #filmfestival social media, and film distributors, to find out about new #documentaryfilm.
In my work, I also keep up w/ Germanic literatures and languages, especially #German, #Swedish, and #Dutch + other langs like #Danish #Norwegian #Icelandic #Afrikaans, incl. lit in translation and the #untranslated!
It's always intriguing to see who gets translated & who gets left out. How is it that none of #Peruvian writer #JaimeBayly's work has been translated into English? (Or am I wrong?)
His debut novel NO SE LO DIGAS A NADIE (1994) is a knockout. Oh, his #JacketFlapPhoto is pretty hot too.
Has anyone else here read his work?
The book was subsequently made into an equally good movie dir. by Francisco Lombardi, with the same title & a killer soundtrack. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166287/
No se lo digas a nadie: Directed by Francisco J. Lombardi. With Santiago Magill, Christian Meier, Lucía Jiménez, Giovanni Ciccia. Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish father, then as an independent lazy pot-smoking college student, and later as a cocaine addict in Lima and Miami.
Paul Filev
Charles Cobine