Catching Fire by Daniel Hahn

Author:Daniel Hahn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: catching fire;daniel hahn;charco press
Publisher: Charco Press
Published: 2022-03-21T13:00:54+00:00

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25 The piece in question was David Aliaga’s “Insomnia of the Statues”, from Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2.

15 March

Hmm, I’ve just come across the opposite problem to the gender-specifying one described on 8 February. In today’s text, a chapter begins with a character saying “[X] isn’t eating”, followed by a conversation about why the person in question isn’t eating – where [X] in my English sentence is standing in for the pronoun. The conversation at this point could in theory refer to a number of different characters, male or female, but Spanish can be ambiguous because it can dispense with pronouns in sentences like these altogether. It becomes clear further down the page that it’s one of the female characters who’s being discussed, so I probably have to open the chapter with “She”, but that means the reader’s provisional doubt in the original won’t be there in the translation. Not sure how to get around it yet.

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