But this collection, pulsating with tribal elements, seemed too literal a translation of thoughts to cloth — or, more accurately, to chiffon, leather and raffia.
This was particularly useful for my most recent book, "Songs for the Butcher's Daughter," because it's written in two voices, one basically the same as my usual writing voice and one very different — a translation of thoughts formed in another language.
My goal was to achieve true fluency, to move past the stage of simultaneous translation of English thoughts and into the realm of spontaneous French speech.
As she reads through her translation, fragments of thoughts -- about drowned kittens, Anais Nin and her diary, Djuna Barnes and her turgid novel "Nightwood" -- drift into the plot of "Karamazov".
His promotion of this thesis -which runs counter to the creeds of modern Islamists - was found in his seminal books Greek Heritage In Islamic Civilisation (1940) and Aristotle Among The Arabs, as well as countless translations of Greek thought.
It feels like a translation at a remove: a rendering of an author's own translation of words and thoughts it pains him to remember, in a language he no longer speaks.
Failing to find in non-Western modes of thought precise translations of comparable rational expressions in their own languages, anthropologists hastened to conclude that the problem must lie with the non-Western modes of thought which appear to lack ways of accommodating rational expressions.
There is little else, and what there is tends to be articles in specialized anthologies (Fan 2011) or journals of translation (Contemporary Chinese Thought, The Journal of Chinese Humanities).
It is not actually a word-for-word translation of the Scriptures, but a thought-for-thought paraphrase (i.e. someone put it into their own words) that is easier to read and understand for folks who haven't grown up in church.
Dwight Macdonald, who shortened Constance Garnett's four-volume translation of "My Past and Thoughts" into a single book in the early 1970s, suggested that if The New Yorker had existed in the 19th century, Herzen would have been one of its prize writers.
