tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8975068782640761502.post4170575173705147913..comments2024-01-03T08:48:10.334+08:00Comments on LOL Literatures in Other Languages: John GuzlowskiAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08899050113520098038noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8975068782640761502.post-26079188275660842322010-07-22T02:43:12.444+08:002010-07-22T02:43:12.444+08:00Dear Ms. Cruz, thank you for posting my poem here ...Dear Ms. Cruz, thank you for posting my poem here and making it a part of your discussion.<br /><br />Let me say one thing, as a writer who has both been translated into other languages and translated work into other languages, I feel that the process of translation enriches all involved, the writer being translated, the translator doing the translation, and of course the reader reading the translation.<br /><br />Translation deepens the writing and the writer.John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8975068782640761502.post-36878044619247903142010-07-21T13:48:00.283+08:002010-07-21T13:48:00.283+08:00I would like to quote the multilingual author Albe...I would like to quote the multilingual author Albert Russo regarding Joseph Conrad:<br /><br />"Oh, I hear the naysayers: 'You can only write well in your native language.' I've heard that remark about my own multilingual exercises, specially here in France. And who utters such opinions? Monolingual critics, journalists or writers, who have no idea of what the possession [of] another language entails. And they add: 'You will never be able to excel in a second language.' They forget the case - very rare indeed, that is why, I admire Powell's endeavors - of Joseph Conrad, whose native tongue was Polish and whose second language was French. He learnt English in his twenties, spoke it with such a bad accent that people could hardly understand him, and yet he wrote the most beautiful and sophisticated novels in English. A bon entendeur salut!"<br /><br />- excerpted from Russo's foreward to Dr. Santosh Kumar's book "Adam Donaldson Powell: the Making of a Poet", Cyberwit.net, 2010.Adam Donaldson Powellhttp://www.adamdonaldsonpowell.comnoreply@blogger.com