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'Finnegans Wake' is Chinese publishing hit
« on: January 29, 2013, 07:30:52 PM »
AFP News – 3 hours ago


A new Chinese translation of "Finnegans Wake", renowned for its linguistic difficulty in the original, is proving a hit in China -- although one academic called the author James Joyce "mentally ill".

The first-ever mainland Chinese edition of the novel sold out its initial print run of 8,000 copies just three weeks after being launched in December, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Translator Dai Congrong of Shanghai's Fudan University toiled for eight years to render the work about an Irish family into Chinese, imitating the stream of consciousness style and unusual language, it said.

It quoted Wang Weisong of the Shanghai People's Publishing House, which released the book, as saying its success was "totally unexpected".

Both the translator and the publisher declined to comment on Tuesday.

Chinese readers are already familiar with other works of the early 20th century Irish writer. The Chinese edition of "Ulysses", considered his masterpiece, went on sale in 1995.

Literary critic Liu Wei told a recent seminar on "Finnegans Wake" that the book -- the plot of which remains open to interpretation -- deserved respect.

"Modern writers share a common sense of doing interesting textual experiments... among this group of writers, Joyce has the most intensive sense of all," he said, according to an online transcript.

"I think it deserves our respect that Joyce created such a rich text."

But one reader, who gave the name Eudaimonus, said in a microblog posting that the work was not accessible to all.

"Finnegans Wake is a book for book collectors and critics, but not for readers," the posting said.
Others were more emphatic. Xinhua quoted Jiang Xiaoyuan, a professor at Shanghai's Jiaotong University, as saying: "Joyce must have been mentally ill to create such a novel."

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Re: 'Finnegans Wake' is Chinese publishing hit
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2013, 07:36:45 PM »
First page of the novel in its original "English"...


    riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend   1
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to   2
Howth Castle and Environs.   3
    Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-   4
core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy   5
isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor   6
had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse   7
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper   8
all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to   9
tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a   10
kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in   11
vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a   12
peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory   13
end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.   14
    The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-   15
ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-   16
nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later   17
on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the   18
offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan,   19
erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends   20
an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes:   21
and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park   22
where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since dev-   23
linsfirst loved livvy.


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Re: 'Finnegans Wake' is Chinese publishing hit
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2013, 07:37:38 PM »
Unsaon kaha ni pag-Ininsik... ;D

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