Dogra magra
by Kyūsaku Yumeno · first published 2003
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…https://ho-lingnojikenbo.blogspot.com As for me personally, the best non-English mystery novels I’ve read this year are probably Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo, The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei, and Dogra Magra by Yumeno Kyusaku.
on “Ask HN: What are some captivating fair play mystery books that you've read” ↗…will reference some novel that remains completed untranslated, and good translation notes will note that then say, well, you're on your own on actually reading this lol. At the moment I am thinking of Dogra Magra, which has a fan translation on a blogspot somewhere that only covered the first few pages IIRC, and a Machine translation bootleg being sold on amazon. No other translation I am aware of, though I have…
on “Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes” ↗Dogra Magra is a tough one, it is known to be hard to get through even for native speakers. From what I've heard (I have not attempted to read it), it's both dense in information, but very sparse in progression,…
on “Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes” ↗Yes, makes sense to me. I think translation of novels (maybe particularly modernist novels, which I think Dogra Magra is considered) is not just harder than anime or other pop culture, but more, uh, conceptually strange? I was just thinking of Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse", like, what would it mean to translate…
on “Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes” ↗