She’s not here anymore. I wrote a post on her a couple years ago after reading a dissertation about her translations of Thomas Mann. Even though it was basically just a hastily jotted note, it climbed nearly to the top of the Google results (second only to Wikipedia) and I decided it didn’t belong there… Continue reading Looking for Helen Lowe-Porter?
Month: June 2019
Crickets
I like this Schubert song, Der Einsame. So I started translating it, but after some time I found that the text, although perfectly fine, is just unremarkable enough that it doesn’t seem quite worth the effort to bring it over accurately in rhyme. Then I looked for a different angle to change it up a… Continue reading Crickets