Seven books arrived today. Although I'm expecting more tomorrow and/or Wednesday, I decided this would be my final Book Porn post for 2008. The first two pictures are of books I purchased from Jeff VanderMeer and they highlight one of my passions, the collection of foreign editions of works that I enjoyed. The final three books are from an order I placed a few weeks ago to a Spanish bookstore.
Left: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, New Weird (Romanian translation); Jeff VanderMeer, Miasto Szalenców I Swietych (Polish translation of City of Saints and Madmen, with a very lovely cover. Too bad I can't be bothered enough to activate the Polish alphabet feature on my keyboard right now).
Left: Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains (an added bonus to my purchase, and a Carter book I haven't yet read); Δρσ. Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, ΝΟΣΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ (Οδηγοσ Παραζενων & Αμφισβητουμενων ΑζΘενειων) (Greek translation of The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases).
Left: Roberto Bolaño, Putas asesinas (2001 collection of short stories); Roberto Bolaño, Llamadas telefónicas (1997 collection of short stories).
Left: Andrzej Sapkowski, La torre de la golondrina (sixth and penultimate volume in the Saga de Geralt series).
Nice artwork for most of these, huh?
They're pretty.
ReplyDeleteSo what are the languages that you're literate with?
Just the Spanish, although I can make sense of much of the Romanian due to its affinity with Latin and Spanish. I understand a few words here and there in Polish due to learning a bit of Serbian a few years ago, but not enough to attempt to read a passage without consulting the original edition.
ReplyDeleteI just like collecting foreign editions and I may spend a bit of time doing the laborious task of transliterating/noting parallel constructions in case I ever want to study the structure/grammar of that particular language later.
I would certainly prefer to read more foreign fiction which were translated from Spanish translation to English, or in any languages.Because in that way I could have an idea what do people think,feel or their culture is.When we read books from a foreign country it seems like travelling in that country through the stories plot.We could recognize how they have been living afar from our own culture.
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