Tag: Bob Dylan
Chanson du Jour: Je te veux
Adaptation de la chanson de Bob Dylan ” I Want You ” sur l’album “Vise le Ciel”
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Francis Cabrel sings Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate”
You say potato, I say pomme de terre
As I listen more to French singers performing songs they’ve translated from English, I’m becoming fascinated by the inherent complexities of that process. Even in a proper translation, a song’s rhyme and poetic qualities may suffer.
In a poor translation, a song’s meaning can be completely lost. “It’s like searching for the best path through the forest which must satisfy several conflicting criteria,” says Russian translator Stanislov Korotyginit, “It must be the shortest path, the nicest and the safest. And you have to meet the wolf on the way.”
The Beats’ Countercultural Ferment Still Bubbles, in Paris – The New York Times
A show at the Pompidou Center in Paris, “Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris,” is the first major retrospective on the Beats since the 1990s.
Source: The Beats’ Countercultural Ferment Still Bubbles, in Paris – The New York Times
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