Sujet : Re: MT VOID, 12/06/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 23, Whole Number 2357
De : garym (at) *nospam* mcgath.com (Gary McGath)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.fandomDate : 11. Dec 2024, 03:16:42
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On 12/8/24 10:53 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
Even with the first sentence, the book is a puzzle. "One morning,
when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself
transformed in his bed into a ..." what? "Horrible vermin"? "...
monstrous verminous bug"? "monstrous vermin"? "... monstrous
cockroach"? "... beetle"? "... giant insect"? (David Wyllie, Ian
Johnston, Stanley Corngold (and Google), Michael Hofmann, Vladimir
Nabokov, and unknown, respectively)
The original German is "ungeheuren Ungeziefer", which is no help,
because "Ungeziefer" is not a strictly defined entomological term.
I'm not a native German speaker, but "monstrous vermin" seems closest to me. Definitely not anything that suggests a particular species.
-- Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com
MT VOID, 12/06/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 23, Whole Number 2357
Re: MT VOID, 12/06/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 23, Whole Number 2357