Re: SF and Translation

From: Sheryl Curtis (maddog@INFOBAHNOS.COM)
Date: Wed Apr 23 1997 - 05:40:36 PDT


Hi Nalo:

Would you be able to give me a reference for this essay. I've read most of
EV's stuff a, but I didn't even know about this. Thanks.

S.

>NH: Hi, Sheryl. The Elgin books would have been the first I would have
>recommended. There's also Samuel Delany's _Babel 17,_ although Suzette
>Elgin told me that he gets some of his linguistic principles wrong in
>that one. And I don't know that any of her books are *about*
>translation, but Quebecer Elisabeth Vonarburg writes in both French and
>English. I know that she has an essay about the difference between
>writing the same text in two languages vs. translating it from one
>language to the other.
>



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