the translator's voice
I kind of want to read Holzfällen twice, in German then in English because I feel that the voice is completely different.
perhaps I should read Murakami again, in Japanese. or try to... Philip Gabriel's translations of Murakami is such a special voice and I really really enjoy it but what does Murakami actually sound like?
I liked Michiko Aoyama's "What you are looking for is in the library" when I read it translated in English and now I'm curious to read it again in Japanese ; when I read another work of hers translated in French, it felt utterly different.
I kind of think that translations should be considered their own book.
I am so much more comfortable reading in Italian than I am in speaking in Italian but I am so much more comfortable speaking German than I am in reading German and I am so much more comfortable eavesdropping in French than I am in doing almost anything else
in Japanese I am just sort of uneasy no matter what, so might as well do whatever I feel like doing in it.
BUT IT IS JUST A LOT OF WORK TO USE AMAZON.JP BECAUSE THE KINDLE ACCOUNT IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KINDLE ACCOUNT
I kind of want to get a second kindle on black friday...
one of the things i really want to read is "I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki 2" and it is not available in english nor do i speak korean but it HAS been translated into japanese so...