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2026-04-03 05:21 UTC
@Rycaut It has been done. But you'd see how widely off the translation is. So it's not in the interest of the publisher. 🙂
Last year, I tried this with one of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry books, reading original and translation side by side. Flight to Arras. (Pilote de guerre).
I was shocked. I couldn't get beyond a couple of pages. I looked for a better or more true-to-the-original translation, but the Foundation Saint-Exupéry has never approved a second translation.
To wit: 1/2
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@newstik@social.heise.de 2026-04-03 05:24
@Rycaut La nuit bien-aimée. La nuit, la raison dort, et simplement les choses sont. Celles qui importent véritablement reprennent leur forme, survivent aux destructions des analyses du jour. L'homme renoue ses morceaux et redevient arbre calme. Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ?!