“Horia Ursu, fost luptator profesionist si actual gangster de origine romana…”

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“Horia rinji, trase un fum din trabuc si spuse:

– Americanii sint la fel ca si romanii: inflacarati, directi, scurt si la obiect.” 

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Jeff VanderMeer – PREDATOR – TEROARE IN JUNGLA, MILLENIUM PRESS 2008

Serghei Lukianenko – Night watch (*** out of 5), Day watch (*** and a half out of 5), Twilight watch (**** out of 5) in 25 words.

Night watch

Wizards and witches roam around Moscow. Good ones curse and the world’s about to end. Chiefs are old and cunning. Beware the vampire.

Day watch

Burnt-out witch falls in love with white wizard. Obligingly, he kills her. Good ones try coup. Non-being magus restores balance. Bad guys try monster ressurection.

Twilight watch

Unaffiliated frozen witch thaws. Magic book is found and lost. Balance must be maintained: ex-frozen witch is hunted. Beware the vampire even more.

ar trebui sa fie usoara traducerea unui text cu gindurile unui autist. discursul e literal, metafore idiomatice aproape nu exista, pina si google ar face treaba buna.

mai greu e cind din spatele textului razbesc trairi si sentimente, cautari si indecizii. mai greu e cind stilul din textul original chiar conteaza.

am incercat sa “analizez” maiestria traducatoarei, lecturind “viteza intunericului“. n-a fost usor: cartea e excelenta, m-a supt in ea de la primele pagini, am primit-o cu deliciu.

ma pot scoate din transa lecturii eventuale sughituri – de redactare, de traducere, de rationament. doar atunci pot gindi citirea, iesind partial din real time-ul materiei scrise. nu s-a intimplat, la “viteza intunericului”.

felicitari (si multumiri), Ona Frantz, pentru o traducere de exceptie.

[ o recenzie adevarata. si inca una. ]

“the ghost brigades” in (less than) 25 words:

you’re ressurected. the pal in your brain tells you what to do. bugs come. bugs kill the pal in your brain. go figure.

as there’s no book I owe to luciat, i’ll pay my respects by saying 25 words about Dune (now and forever on her “most-annoying” list):

big firebreathing worms ridden by masked men dive into sand. junkies crave for spice. bald crone burns hand of youth while fatman flies. robots forbidden.

(image © h.r.giger)

it’s coming.

Sci-fi author Michael Crichton dies at age 66.

e ceva linistitor in “Spin”. aparenta sincopa a sf-ului nu ma mai sperie. da, sintem foarte aproape de orizontul evenimential, dincolo de care pasul in imposibil e, cumva, ridicol; de acord, vremea epopeilor grandioase a trecut pentru sf; extrapolarile pornite de la stiinta vremii contin parca tot mai putina imaginatie, si comparatiile cu “batrinii” sint frustrante.

…dar dupa citirea unei carti de talia lui “Spin” sint linistit.