The headline, Translation is challenging work, say writers, from The Hindu, is hardly a startling one, but the example discussed is a rather unusual one, as:
Even odder -- or, perhaps, making the selection not that surprising ? -- is that the novel is a retelling of that great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. Which would at least, one imagine, make some of the translation choices that had to be made somewhat easier .....
Translating literature is challenging, Bannanje Govindacharya, scholar, said on Sunday. He was releasing the Sanskrit version of Parva, a novel originally written in Kannada by S.L. Bhyrappa.Parva (ಪರ್ವ) has been translated into a number of languages -- including English (get your copy at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, or, in India, Flipkart) -- but to find a contemporary work translated into ... Sanskrit is unusual.
Even odder -- or, perhaps, making the selection not that surprising ? -- is that the novel is a retelling of that great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. Which would at least, one imagine, make some of the translation choices that had to be made somewhat easier .....