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Aug 19, 2011 17:44
12 yrs ago
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Spanish term

pareciere que redundando

Spanish to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting Exhibition catalogue
Carmen Laforet publicaba su conocida novela Nada, crónica de una desolada Barcelona que recordaba casi la «ciudad irreal» eliotiana, mas también otro vate y crítico, Juan-Eduardo Cirlot, ***pareciere que redundando***, desvelaba su poemario "En la llama", esos versos «inconcebiblemente oscuros». En lo oficial, era también 1946 el año en el que se inauguraba una doble exposición celebrando el nacimiento de Goya...

UK Eng.

Thanks in advance.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 in the same vein / seemingly repeating the quest
4 who echoed (practically) the same vision/sentiments
4 seemingly repetitive/repetitious
4 as if in a redundant voice//as if in redundant answer

Discussion

Kate Major Patience (asker) Aug 28, 2011:
"Unreal city" Sure, if this was for a different kind of audience, perhaps. But the writer's a real elitist, and the text seems to really be only aimed at experts. I don't think it would be at all appropriate to change the reference, given the context. Thanks.
philgoddard Aug 19, 2011:
I'd be tempted to put "Waste Land" for "Ciudad Irreal" - "Unreal city" is a line from The Waste Land, but I don't think most people would recognise it, whereas they would have heard of the poem itself.

Proposed translations

+1
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in the same vein / seemingly repeating the quest

Two options.
Peer comment(s):
agree philgoddard : I prefer the first.
42 mins
Thank you, yes me too. Although perhaps the second one could be used if she wanted to maintain the original's slightly tongue-in-cheek tone.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I used "in the same vein", since the rest of the content is so complex and waffly that I needed something simple here - but all your answers helped me understand the sense. Very helpful, thank you!"
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who echoed (practically) the same vision/sentiments

Another option (to be adjusted syntactically to the rest of your translation): www.radicaltruth.net/index.php?option...[1] Modern authors today echo those same sentiments. Nonie Darwish, a former Muslim woman and daughter of a shahid (martyr), notes that, "no law on earth ...; www.cisce.org/Council_NA_DerazioAward_life.html... for most of the authors who wrote poetry in the 19th century were echoing either consciously or unconsciously, the same sentiment, seeking recognition ...
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1 hr

seemingly repetitive/repetitious

esto es lo que yo leo
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as if in a redundant voice//as if in redundant answer

I think it is worth while to preserve the cadence and suggested image of the original. We may not like it and it does sound old-fashioned and "over poetic" in Spanish, but the voice behind the original has to be reflected in the translation too.
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