Comments on: Three Book Meme http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/ Omnia mihi lingua graeca sunt Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:40:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Lilder http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-61 Lilder Wed, 23 May 2007 22:00:40 +0000 http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-61 "Franz Kafka. Because even despair can be funny." This is the ONLY effective argument for reading Kafka I have ever heard! :D “Franz Kafka. Because even despair can be funny.”

This is the ONLY effective argument for reading Kafka I have ever heard! :D

]]> By: Paula http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-50 Paula Sun, 20 May 2007 07:25:05 +0000 http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-50 I will let you know when I will post it. The blog about the Gulag is a better place to post the translation than my main site. Pax I will let you know when I will post it. The blog about the Gulag is a better place to post the translation than my main site.

Pax

]]> By: swede1875 http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-49 swede1875 Sat, 19 May 2007 20:16:36 +0000 http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-49 Wow. that would be very interesting! I look forward to read it. Wow. that would be very interesting! I look forward to read it.

]]> By: Paula http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-48 Paula Sat, 19 May 2007 20:12:19 +0000 http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-48 P.S: I will translate a bit on my blog. Next week, I hope.:-). Joakim, you reminded me something that I wanted to do since a long time...thanks. P.S: I will translate a bit on my blog.
Next week, I hope.:-). Joakim, you reminded me something that I wanted to do since a long time…thanks.

]]> By: Paula http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-47 Paula Sat, 19 May 2007 20:08:25 +0000 http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-47 Ah, you are right Joakim...I have thought some time ago about translation and I will try to find it. Fr Nicolae de la Rohia was a sophisticated intellectual of Jewish origin. He was an agnostic previous his conversion. Arrested by the communists in the 50s along with many others from the intellectual elite, he was already thinking about becoming a Christian. Only in the prison he became one, actually. He was baptized in a prison cell by an Orthodox priest while a Greek-Catholic one was assisting. A very ecumenical ceremony indeed.:-). After his liberation he entered a monastery, Rohia, in North-Romania. He was a fine writer and a poet. I remember reading his Diary some 10 years go...Rarely I have felt so happy during my life, as I was while reading the book. It will be a very difficult translation I think...Romanian is a beautiful and very complex language. Fr Nicolae writes in a somehow savory, arhaic Romanian. :-) Ah, you are right Joakim…I have thought some time ago about translation and I will try to find it.

Fr Nicolae de la Rohia was a sophisticated intellectual of Jewish origin. He was an agnostic previous his conversion. Arrested by the communists in the 50s along with many others from the intellectual elite, he was already thinking about becoming a Christian.

Only in the prison he became one, actually. He was baptized in a prison cell by an Orthodox priest while a Greek-Catholic one was assisting. A very ecumenical ceremony indeed.:-).

After his liberation he entered a monastery, Rohia, in North-Romania. He was a fine writer and a poet.

I remember reading his Diary some 10 years go…Rarely I have felt so happy during my life, as I was while reading the book.

It will be a very difficult translation I think…Romanian is a beautiful and very complex language. Fr Nicolae writes in a somehow savory, arhaic Romanian. :-)

]]> By: swede1875 http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-43 swede1875 Sat, 19 May 2007 11:59:23 +0000 http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-43 Švejk is wonderful. I feel happy just looking at the picture of him. ;-) I found your list very interesting too. Dostoevsky is one of my favorites. Perhaps you can translate The diary of happiness for us? I'm sure it wouldn't be impossible to find a Catholic publisher who would be interested in publishing it. Švejk is wonderful. I feel happy just looking at the picture of him. ;-) I found your list very interesting too. Dostoevsky is one of my favorites.

Perhaps you can translate The diary of happiness for us? I’m sure it wouldn’t be impossible to find a Catholic publisher who would be interested in publishing it.

]]> By: Paula http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-42 Paula Sat, 19 May 2007 11:23:14 +0000 http://swede1875.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/three-book-meme/#comment-42 Joakim, interesting list indeed. I read the soldier Svejk!...and laughed a lot. Joakim, interesting list indeed. I read the soldier Svejk!…and laughed a lot.

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