Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Topic #4: What about Italian?

 "Cosmicomics", which is written by Italo Calvino, is one of my favorite books. It is about cosmos, and the author makes readers feel like reading a comic book. The reason why the reader might think this book is like a comic book is that it is ridiculous, funny, and fantastic. This book says about all things of the world (or space), for instance, the moon that we can reach by sailing according to this book, the origin of creatures, the birth of colors, and so on.
 What is this all about? I mean the author of my beloved book is Italian!! Hence, I just want to try to read "Cosmicomics" in original language. You might know what I am talking about. The writing is neither "just words" nor "only meanings of words". It implies the author's opinions, values, and thoughts, and these are expressed in the words what the author choose from many words that has the same meaning. For this reason, if the translation was perfect, it is not "the author's real sentences". Whenever I found the films, books or something what I really like, I wonder that what the original expression is.
 Although the start was from my simple idea that I want to read "Cosmicomics" in Italian because I love this book, it is getting difficult and complicated to express. (hahaha^^;;) To be short, I want to be fluent in Italian!! Because the question is that if I could be "instantly" fluent in another language, which would I choose, I chose Italian just for reading a book.


4 comments:

  1. What a nice choice! I hope you can teach me some simple Italian, such as "hello" or "good morning" someday! Good Luck!! ^_^

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  2. I love Italian because my favorite team Milan.

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  3. Wow what a reason!
    Usually a joke loses its meaning with translation may be this book did also.

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  4. Haha, that is so funny! I hope you get to learn it soon!

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