{"id":8584,"date":"2015-03-02T22:26:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T02:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8584"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:43:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:43:47","slug":"episode-108-from-asterix-to-zweig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-108-from-asterix-to-zweig","title":{"rendered":"Episode 108 &#8211; From Asterix to Zweig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_108_-_From_Asterix_to_Zweig.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Memories Show:<br \/>\nAnthea Bell &#8211; From Asterix to Zweig<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2685\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8584-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_108_-_From_Asterix_to_Zweig.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_108_-_From_Asterix_to_Zweig.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_108_-_From_Asterix_to_Zweig.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_108_-_From_Asterix_to_Zweig.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8584-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_108_-_From_Asterix_to_Zweig.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_108_-_From_Asterix_to_Zweig.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There were a lot of books in the school library, and they weren&#8217;t in English, and I was mad keen to get at them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Renowned literary translator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goethe.de\/ins\/se\/prj\/uar\/eng\/ueb\/bel\/enindex.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthea Bell<\/a> joins the show to talk about getting her start in foreign languages, the schisms in the world of literary translation, the most challenging authors she&#8217;s worked on, the one language she&#8217;d love to learn, translating everything from Asterix to Zweig, and more! <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_108_-_From_Asterix_to_Zweig.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give it a listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Heinrich Heine goes into English with almost suspicious ease, but Goethe is very, very difficult.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2686\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8584-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" 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rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also talk about where she thinks WG Sebald&#8217;s fiction would have gone had he not died so early, why Asterix has never gotten over in America, the one word that&#8217;s the bane of her existence for U.S.\/UK split editions, her worries for the future of translation, her family&#8217;s history during the War, and her theory for why Asterix&#8217;s druid-pal should keep the name &#8220;Getafix&#8221;!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If we had to have the Romantic period &#8212; and I do say we did, although I like the Enlightenment a lot better &#8212; I say the Germans did it better than anyone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We talk about a ton of books in this episode, so here&#8217;s a handy guide!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005R4K5JU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B005R4K5JU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=QSSDEMQ5HGKH6SL7\">Le Capitaine Fracasse<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B005R4K5JU\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590179331\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590179331&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=YLMGR3GAJADWKS5J\">The Little Water Sprite<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1590179331\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0802145493\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0802145493&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=SDBMQIM7Y3S36LWG\">The Blindness of the Heart<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0802145493\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140446311\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0140446311&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=LWSPMO2IXDVTGUYQ\">The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0140446311\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812982614\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0812982614&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=UPEVHNKD5MDN43U4\">Austerlitz<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0812982614\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375756574\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0375756574&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=TOH5VORFYFNJ5WNG\">On the Natural History of Destruction<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0375756574\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1908213078\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1908213078&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=Z2QRPRG5B6POUR5A\">Apple Acre<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1908213078\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143122010\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0143122010&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=4H3GWZRIQ6XYNR4P\">The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" 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Times of Fading Light<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1555976794\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590516923\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590516923&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=JKKLUBNTSC5645Z5\">Happy are the Happy<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1590516923\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a 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You might like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-bildung-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Prochnik<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-107-silence-in-translation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yasmina Reza<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-putting-the-pro-in-profanity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesse Sheidlower<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-may-god-remember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Goldhagen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-eternity-is-music-that-plays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anthea Bell is a freelance translator from German and French. Her translations include works of non-fiction; modern literary and popular fiction; books for young people including the Asterix the Gaul strip cartoon series; and classics by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Freud, Kafka and Stefan Zweig. She has won several translation awards.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Where Are We Now?<em>\u00a0by David Bowie. The conversation was recorded at Ms. Bell&#8217;s home on a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=64RDM7RI2SABXGPL\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KCXMBES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00KCXMBES&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=DRHR6463DEQ4TO3N\">Zoom H5<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00KCXMBES\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> digital recorder. 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