ProfArguelles Moderator United States foreignlanguageexper Joined 7015 days ago 609 posts - 2102 votes
| Message 1 of 6 12 January 2009 at 5:41pm | IP Logged |
Is anyone here by any chance familiar with the works of the contemporary Austrian author Raoul Schrott? He is a prolific producer of essays, novels, and poetry, for which he won a major litrary prize about 5 years ago. I have just run across him myself and so while I have ordered a number of his works from interlibrary loan, I have yet to read them. I became aware of him by finding and listening to a fascinating 12-part radio series that he produced about a decade ago called die Erfindung der Poesie [the list of broadcasts begins at the very bottom of the page]. Anyone who can follow German narrative and who is interestd in the broader cultural aims of polyglottery (or polyliteracy...) should be equally mesmerized by his detailed account of how Arabic poetic forms filtered through and influenced European lyrics throughout the Middle Ages. If you cannot follow German but are still interested in the development of reading abilities in multiple languages, you may still enjoy listening to the first portion of each segement. In the tradition of Eza Pound before him, Raoul Schrott is a poetic polyglot of first order, and in this series you can hear him read, translate, and interpret poetry in: Summerian, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Irish, Provencal, Hebrew, Italian, and Welsh.
Alexander Arguelles
Edited by ProfArguelles on 12 January 2009 at 6:07pm
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krog Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 5808 days ago 146 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Latin
| Message 2 of 6 13 January 2009 at 2:46am | IP Logged |
That's a super link! In the Wissen/Sozusagen section there's an interview with Guy Deutscher and lots of other interesting stuff as well. I've never heard of Raoul Schrott before though.
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JonB Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6024 days ago 209 posts - 220 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Dutch, Greek
| Message 3 of 6 13 January 2009 at 6:52am | IP Logged |
Yes, this is a truly wonderful link!
Thanks very much. :-D
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krog Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 5808 days ago 146 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Latin
| Message 4 of 6 04 February 2009 at 5:03am | IP Logged |
I've heard at second hand that Rauol Schrott gave a lengthy reading of an updated version of the Iliad, which was supposedly very good, but unfortunately that's all I know.
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urubu Pentaglot Groupie Germany Joined 6365 days ago 49 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, Dutch, Portuguese, Indonesian, English
| Message 5 of 6 04 February 2009 at 6:36am | IP Logged |
krog wrote:
I've heard at second hand that Raoul Schrott gave a lengthy reading of an
updated version of the Iliad, which was supposedly very good, but unfortunately that's
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Yes, he published a new translation of the Iliad last year.
He didn't read it himself, though, he got a couple of famous
German actors to do it:
Schrott
Iliad
I was fortunate enough to be present at the event, but I could kick myself for not
having an audio recorder in one of my pockets.
The translation is available as an audio book:
http://www.amazon.de/Ilias-Homer/dp/3867171882/ref=sr_1_2?
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233749879&sr=8-2
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krog Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 5808 days ago 146 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Latin
| Message 6 of 6 04 February 2009 at 8:49am | IP Logged |
urubu wrote:
Yes, he published a new translation of the Iliad last year.
He didn't read it himself, though, he got a couple of famous
German actors to do it:
Schrott
Iliad
I was fortunate enough to be present at the event, but I could kick myself for not
having an audio recorder in one of my pockets.
The translation is available as an audio book:
http://www.amazon.de/Ilias-Homer/dp/3867171882/ref=sr_1_2?
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233749879&sr=8-2
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Thanks for that link.
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