book – Bergheim .dk | .be https://bergheim.dk (Stein) Runar Bergheim on the Internet Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://bergheim.dk/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/cropped-snapshot-10-3-32x32.jpg book – Bergheim .dk | .be https://bergheim.dk 32 32 Ringdrotten https://bergheim.dk/2007/02/ringdrotten/ Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.bergheim.dk/runar/?p=159 Kom heim i går kveld etter ei veke på vegen og fann nynorskutgåva av “The Lord of the Rings” liggjande pent innpakka på kjøkenbordet.

Til no har det berre funnest bokmålsomsetjingar av dette verket på Norsk. Eg må medgje at piggane kom ut med ein gong eg såg tittelen, Ringdrotten, men etter å ha bladd litt i boka kjenner eg meg trygg på at dette er ei omsetjing som både eg vil – og Tolkien sjølv ville ha sett pris på.

Soga tek til med ei innføring om Hobbitane i Heradet (The Shire). Dette vert god lesnad.

]]> Umberto Eco: Regretfully, we are returning your manuscript: Anonymous, The Bible https://bergheim.dk/2003/12/umberto-eco-regretfully-we-are-returning-your-manuscript-anonymous-the-bible/ https://bergheim.dk/2003/12/umberto-eco-regretfully-we-are-returning-your-manuscript-anonymous-the-bible/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2003 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.bergheim.dk/runar/?p=88 Umberto Eco: Regretfully, we are returning your manuscript: Anonymous, The Bible
I must say that the first few hundred pages of this manuscript really hooked me. Action-packed, they have everything today’s reader wants in a good story. Sex (lots of it, including adultery, sodomy, incest), also murder, war, massacres, and so on.
The Sodom and Gomorrah chapter, with the tranvestites putting the make on the angels, is worthy of Rabelais; the Noah stories are pure Jules Verne; the escape from Egypt cries out to be turned into a major motion picture . . . In other words, a real blockbuster, very well structured, with plenty of twists, full of invention, with just the right amount of piety, and never lapsing into tragedy.
But as I kept on reading, I realized that this is actually an anthology, involving several writers, with many–too many–stretches of poetry, and passages that are downright mawkish and boring, and jeremiads that make no sense.
The end result is a monster omnibus. It seems to have something for everybody, but ends up appealing to nobody. And acquiring the rights from all these different authors will mean big headaches, unless the editor takes care of that himself. The editor’s name, by the way, doesn’t appear anywhere on the manuscript, not even in the table of contents. Is there some reason for keeping his identity a secret?
I’d suggest trying to get the rights only to the first five chapters. We’re on sure ground there. Also come up with a better title. How about The Red Sea Desperadoes?
The above text is taken from “Misreadings”, by Umberto Eco.
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