Intervista a Steven Erikson

Guigz - Have you heard any news about a new French translation of the Malazan books?

I have not. I heard there has been two.


Guigz - Yes. Because French fans are very desperate to read your work but only two volumes have been translated and publication has now been stopped.

Where the translations any good?


Merwin - I read the English version. To go back to the French translation is a little hard but, yes, they’re good.


They’re very difficult to translate, very difficult. I know the German translator was contacting me with emails almost every day when he started it. That was wonderful because I could actually give him the information he wanted. But it seems the case now that I only have contacts from the German translator and the Israeli translator.
There was a brief one from the French translator but it didn’t seem to go anywhere. If the translator doesn’t contact the author, then it’s very hard for the translator to actually get the idea of what I am up to because I do a lot of subtext. A lot of phrases dropped in there need to be echoed three or four books later. It is a serious job. I really felt for the German translator because he was at least two books behind me. I knew what was important for what was coming but he didn’t have the books written in front of him that he could look at. It’s a challenge. It will be wonderful to see a French translation.

Intervista molto interessante!!
I lettori francesi sono messi peggio di noi dato che gli hanno stoppato la serie dopo due libri..

poi ci credo che è molto meno famoso rispetto ad altri, l'hanno tradotto completamente in poche lingue....

Vedremo tra un po' quando uscirà la serie in Cina, se non altro il bacino di utenza è enorme.

Molto bella anche questa parte qui:
R: Ah, yeah, there’s a bit of a steep learning curve for when you’re getting into the series. I remember when I first picked Gardens of the Moon up, and I read the introduction.

S: It’s a perennial question. In a sense, Gardens of the Moon is a kind of instruction manual as well on how to read me, and how to immerse yourself in the world. I guess in that respect, it’s the litmus test for the reader. You either stay with it, or you don’t. Might as well find out in the first book, rather than five books later.

E' la risposta a chi chiede perché I Giardini della Luna è difficile.

Yep. Three books, picking up where we left off with Karsa, more or less. And of course, Cam has signed for (I think) three books to do the early empire stuff.

Nuova intervista fatta ad Erikson. Chi non è in pari in inglese occhio ai possibili spoiler.

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2015/03/inter...en-erikson.html

Intervista fresca di ieri:
https://thecriticaldragon.com/2016/04/18/i...erikson-part-1/