Progress Report, Week 4:<\/p>\n
Pages Translated: 32
\nPages Translated Since Last Week: 10
\nPages Revised: 0
\nLast Page Translated: 42
\nPages Remaining: 62<\/p>\n
Made quota every day last week,\u00a0 and usually did a bit better. Not too bad. This week will be a bit tougher, since I’m seeing fourteen movies, but once I make it through two film festivals life will become considerably less hectic.<\/p>\n
I noticed that the Kennedy Center is producing a new translation of a Ferenc Moln\u00e1r play, The Guardsman<\/em>, in June, so I downloaded a copy of the original Hungarian edition. I already had a copy of the old 1924 translation by Grace Colbron and Hans Bartsch, which was further adapted for the American stage by Philip Moeller (who, I suspect, made the alterations the new translator, Richard Nelson, objected to). My next project, I think, will be to make a quick and dirty translation, comparing it to the 1924 translation as I go, and then seeing how Nelson handles the same material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Progress Report, Week 4: Pages Translated: 32 Pages Translated Since Last Week: 10 Pages Revised: 0 Last Page Translated: 42 Pages Remaining: 62 Made quota every day last week,\u00a0 and usually did a bit better. Not too bad. This week … Continue reading