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they don't even look good in you Danka Zajde!!! >:ı
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literature/linguistics major, São Paulo University.
Languages: pt-br, en, ja, de.
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fuckin Danka Zajde who does she think she is flexing her dresses of gold and whatnot
mirrorwitch quoted Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank
Nannie v. Praag-Sigaar ist ein kleines, gescheites Mädchen. Ich finde sie ganz nett. Sie ist ziemlich klug. Viel ist über sie nicht zu sagen.
— Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank (Page 17)
somehow a sicker burn than even Danka "angeberisches, tschelndes, ekliges, erwachsentuendes, hinterhältiges Mädchen" Zajde in my opinion
mirrorwitch wants to read The Elder Edda by W. H. Auden
wow W.H. Auden worked on an Edda translation? a shame it's a partial one but I gotta read this
mirrorwitch quoted Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank
- Rin-tin-tin hieß der Hund in einem bekannten Kinderfilm; A. d. Ü.
— Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank (Page 16)
…and that the translator felt like this footnote was necessary makes me feel so old.
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»Ich werde mit dem Augenblick beginnen, als ich dich bekommen habe […] um meine Geschenke auszupacken. An erster Stelle warst du es…«
the old custom of personifying diaries. I wonder if this helps. maybe we would today talk bitterly, or apologetically, but you can have a dialog with the page about your difficulties with the page...
mirrorwitch quoted Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank
Diese Art, Tagebuch zu schreiben, finde ich viel schöner, und ich kann die Stunde fast nich abwarten, wenn ich Zeit habe, in dich zu schreiben. [28.09.42]
— Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank (Page 15)
And not felt as a chore or grim duty. At least not here; dunno if the mood persists. But is it possible for us too, us little prisoners of cellphones and shiny rectangles—to look forward to writing…?
mirrorwitch quoted Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank
»…werde ich jemals Journalistin und Schriftstellerin werden? Ich hoffe es, ich hoffe es so sehr!«
— Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank (Page 200)
Time it took for me to wet my eyes with this book: Reading the quote in the back cover
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I spoke too soon; there's a facsimile of her list of pseudonyms on p.14 and it's all in cursive, showing comfort with the form. It's a pretty readable cursive, to, way more than the note I mentioned above.
mirrorwitch commented on Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank
Manuscriptics of Anne Frank's diary: - version a: The original Kitty, written for herself. - version b: The edited version that she prepared for posterity, after hearing the speech of the exiled minister. - version c: A condensed version from a. and b., edited by her father, who wanted to realise his dead daughter's wishes that it would be published as a witness to the age. (I believe here is where the lesbian passages were omitted, along with the ones with negative feelings about her mother.) - version d: if I get this correctly, a maximalist critical edition by the Anne Frank Fonds, intended to combat denialism (see below).
This edition's main translation is based on d., plus five pages discovered/published in the late 20th century. And it also includes the full text of a. and b. as appendices. I appreciate the extensiveness of scholarship, and I like to imagine …
Manuscriptics of Anne Frank's diary: - version a: The original Kitty, written for herself. - version b: The edited version that she prepared for posterity, after hearing the speech of the exiled minister. - version c: A condensed version from a. and b., edited by her father, who wanted to realise his dead daughter's wishes that it would be published as a witness to the age. (I believe here is where the lesbian passages were omitted, along with the ones with negative feelings about her mother.) - version d: if I get this correctly, a maximalist critical edition by the Anne Frank Fonds, intended to combat denialism (see below).
This edition's main translation is based on d., plus five pages discovered/published in the late 20th century. And it also includes the full text of a. and b. as appendices. I appreciate the extensiveness of scholarship, and I like to imagine that Anne (»…werde ich jemals Journalistin und Schriftstellerin werden? Ich hoffe es, ich hoffe es so sehr!«) does, too.
More things learned from the introduction:
- There was always sceptics that this really was a diary of a teenage girl really from the Nazi occupation; this led to the publication of the manuscripts and other material evidence as proof.
- Anne's pseudonym surname for her family was originally "Aulis", then she changed to "Robin".
- I thought "how hard can the diary of a teen girl be?" so I started with Kitty, but apparently I can reasonably read academic German now, cos I think I understood all this paratext so far. At least 95% comprehension, I'd self-rate.
mirrorwitch quoted Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank
Dann hörte sie im Radio aus London den niederländischen Erziehungsminister im Exil, der davon sprach, dass man nach dem Krieg alles über die Leiden des niederländischen Volkes während der deutschen Besatzung sammeln und veröffentlichen müsse. Als Beispiel führte er unter anderem Tagebücher an...
— Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank (Page 11)
What the minister feels to Anne, Anne feels to me. How can I read this and her diary and not think, "denn da ist keine Stelle / die dich nicht sieht. Du mußt dein Leben ändern"?
I think of Isherwood and Schwarzenfeld and that I should keep my own register, that can be read by people in the future and they'll know, they'll know it all happened again... but the thing is, if I write about my experiences frankly, the diary itself would put me at risk. And if I don't write frankly, what is the point?
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things learned from the foreword:
- Anne was from Frankfurt am Main.
- Otto (her father), the only survivor of the family, was the founder of the Anne Frank Fonds.
- Anne wrote in a cute, not at all neat, rounded ball-and-stick roman. Pretty similar to my own handwriting, come to think of. The page shown as a sample has a smaller note taped to it; this note has some cursive exercises at the bottom. (At least I think they're exercises; they're hard to follow for the non-initiated, likely an equivalent to German Kurrent, but most letters in the two sample lines seem to be single or in pairs.)
mirrorwitch commented on Gesamtausgabe by Anne Frank
I wrote about how it feels to read a book like this when you're still learning German.
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mirrorwitch commented on Der Thron der Sieben Königreiche by George R. R. Martin (Das Lied von Eis und Feuer, #3)
Die Zeiten sind aus den Fugen geraten: Der Sommer des Friedens und der Fülle, der …
"Holand Reet" however is a bad translation. The whole point of Howland Reed is that the crannogmen have a moving court that can hide from enemies in the marshlands. Come on? Howl's Moving Castle? (who was still called Howl in „Sophie im Schloss des Zauberers“, so no excuse there).