GG: The Loser

[Mary Jo Watts <mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu>]

The English translation evokes all kinds of uproars for its inaccuracy--
It's called "The Loser" in English.

"Der Untergeher. (Literally this translates as The Undergoer, but this is
ridiculous and has been translated as The Loser. Unfortunately this loses
the allusion to Nietzsche - "Have you suffered for knowledges [sic] sake?"
- that is, gone under)." http://www.spikemagazine.com/0299bernhard.htm

-Mary Jo


On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Elmer Elevator wrote:

> Hmmm ... www.freetranslation.com my robot translator is off line and
> my German sux, but wouldn't "Der Untergeher" be "the person who
> goes/travels under things" -- sort of an artistic spelunker who
> voyages to the deepest parts of an art? I think that's the sense of it
> ... interesting to know what English translation was chosen for it.
> 
> Bob / Elmer
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>     Subject: Re: GG Wagner's "Siegfrid Idyll "
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>      and the novel of Thomas Bernhard (Der Untergeher -I don't know
> the title in english!)...
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