At 10:27 28-07-02 -0700, Terrill Lankford wrote:
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>
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>I've been lurking through UK month, but found it very
interesting. One of the
>things I've found most illuminating is the sense that
we don't import nearly
>enough writing from outside this country, even when
it is in our own
language.
>I wanted to suggest that Etienne host a month on
French writers, then I
>realized we don't get a whole lot of translations of
French HB works here. It
>seems we have a one way street going with this issue
most of the time. Just
>about anyone who writes a halfway decent book can
sell the rights to France
>for translation (or Japan, Germany, UK, Italy, etc.),
but our U.S. publishers
>don't seem very high on bringing in the
imports.
>
I totally agree with Terrill about this isolationism of the
USA concerning popular lit. It's because the French (and from
other Continental origins) novels are scarcely translated,
even for the UK market, that I refrain from citing names of
French authors that could illustrate some of our general
discussions here.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com
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