«Dado Island. The Superstitious Democracy» – перевод на английский язык книги Саши Кругосветова «Остров Дадо. Суеверная демократия», выполненный переводчицей Жозефиной фон Цицевиц.
Сам автор, вспоминая своё знакомство с переводчицей и оценивая результаты её работы, отмечает:
«Жозефина – очень живая, обаятельная. С неожиданной биографией. Она прусская немка, выходец из тех мест, что сейчас являются Калининградской областью. Живет в Лондоне очень давно. Она профессиональный филолог, преподает в университете и занимается переводами на русский и на английский. Ее русский почти без акцента. Видимо, и с пониманием все очень неплохо. Хотя в процессе работы были отдельные случаи, когда фрагменты русского текста она «прочитывала» (воспринимала) ошибочно. Но, поняв объяснение, находила прекрасные решения. Я мог бы очень долго рассказывать о ее успехах: как вместо ССБ (Совета Светлого Будущего) появился GESTAPRO, вместо ТРУПа (Трудовой Партии) появился WORKCORPS, вместо Хачей появились Haki (напоминающие paki), вместо Очкариков – Geek. Вместо крыши – umbrella.
Одним словом, по моим впечатлениям, перевод книги на английский удался. А как его оценят англоязычные читатели – покажет время».
Оглавление
Саша Кругосветов. Dado Island. The Superstitious Democracy
Preface
The Beautiful Island (in place of a foreword)
Part One, in which we meet Seryoga the Lemur, Captain Alexander’s friend, and find out about the superstitious democracy of the animals on Dado Island
Friend Seryoga is an expert on animal democracy
The Zebu Dictatorship
Lizard Power
Machaon the Butterfly
Insects and New Zebu
Fatsly
Lemon Chafers, Caspian Chafers, and Natural Chafers
Parson the Chameleon
The Dado Problem and other Superstitions
Dado the Bird
Part Two, in which we find out how they tried to solve the Dado Problem on Dado Island
The Council for the Bright Future
Yu-Yu is Invited
Dia, an Expert in Classical Equatorial Law and Precedental Atlantic Law
Part Three, in which we find out how Captain Alexander met Dado and what he did in order to solve the Dado Problem
The Sailors from the ‘Fast Sails’ on Dado Island
The Stone Forest
A Meeting with Dado
Afr the Ostrich
Part Four, in which we learn what happened then and how life changed on Dado Island
Dado Chicks
The End of the Superstitious Democracy
Captain Alexander gives Advice to the Orangutans
The Virus of Success
Author’s Notes
Отрывок из книги
The author of this book is Sasha Krugosvetov, a mathematician, philosopher and master of martial arts. All his conscious life he has been fascinated by and researched the journeys of the famous Captain Alexander, who lived in the late 19th – early 20th century. Alexander used to sail wooden sailers and remained faithful to these vessels even when the first ships with metal hulls and steam engines became available.
Only a few written documents about his life have been preserved, and as a result Sasha Krugosvetov himself has followed the famous captain’s itineraries in search of people who know something about Captain Alexander, or whose relatives or friends told them about him. Over the course of his many travels the author of this book has managed to collect a wealth of informative and instructive material about the voyages and adventures of Captain Alexander. I know Sasha well through my friend, the submarine captain Misha Lipnitsky. Sasha is married to Lipnitsky’s daughter, the beautiful Irina, and I have been to their house many times, together with Misha.
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Dima takes a more comfortable position on his father’s knees, taking his hand and putting his own head on his shoulder.
Some time passes, and Irina steps into the circle of light. To the surprise of her husband and son, she doesn’t demand that the boy wash, brush his teeth and go to bed straight away. She brings a small tape recorder, one of those that were in use during the 1980s and exclaims: ‘Boys! I heard through the open kitchen door what an interesting conversation you are having. Let’s record these tales. So when Dima grows up, we will remember the times when he was little. Carry on, Sasha. I am also going to listen. And you, Dima, don’t drum on the tape recorder with your fingers and don’t rustle, or all we’ll hear instead of a story of Captain Alexander’s voyage will be your fingers.
