Renate Stendhal's Blog – August 2010 Archive (3)

Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 53

Translating Stein's murder mystery Blood on the Dining-Room Floor was very much a case of transleaping. I had to leap into a language, German, that gives every noun, article and personal pronoun one of three possible genders: feminine, masculine, neuter. There is no genderless equivalent in German. So what was I to do with Stein's "everybody"?

"Everybody" in Stein's writing regularly refers to the narrator who, of course, is Stein… Continue

Added by Renate Stendhal on August 27, 2010 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

Why Do Something If It Can Be Done: Quoting Gertrude Stein # 52

After the marker of 5O Stein blogs -- talking about Stein’s one and only writing block –- did I contract one myself? No, for me, too, writing went on, on another page. Finishing a novel, writing about opera. Stein was writing her detective story during that ominous summer in 1933, when success caught up with her. She was troubled by questions of identity (“I am I because my little dog knows me.”) Some part of her seemed unreachable, dead. It must… Continue

Added by Renate Stendhal on August 16, 2010 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

Opera Lovers: The "Valkyrie" of the 21st century was born in SF!

Every now and then there is a new reason to fall in love with San Francisco. This time it's the advancing project of a new San Francisco Opera Ring cycle. After the first part, Wagner's "prologue" Das Rheingold in 2008, now the curtain went up on part two, Die Walküre, one of the three 4½ to 5-hour mammoths of the cycle that are… Continue

Added by Renate Stendhal on August 8, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

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