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Westeros without Putin
Fans of the famous series “Game of Thrones” received a rare opportunity to chat with the author of the Sague of Ice and Flame, which lay on its basis: American fantasy writer George R.R. Martin came to Russia for the first time.
George Martin flew to Russia. Visitably, to see with his own eyes how a whole country lives on his scripts.
- Bob Farber (@Bobchensk) August 16, 2017
On August 16, the writer gave a press conference in St. Petersburg as part of the St. Petersburg Fantastic Assembly . But not all questions were awarded the answer: according to Rosbalt , the question of which aristocratic family would belong to Putin if he existed in the universe of the "song of ice and flame", remained without comment - the translator simply refused to translate it into English. Another question in which Donald Trump compared with Cersei Lannister was not completely translated - his author broadcast this moment on Facebook:
Commentators are perplexed, and those who are related to the translation and book publishing are trying to find out what happened at a press conference.
I looked at a piece of the press of George Martin in TASS, and this is some kind of really Seven Hells. Yegor Kholmogorov, a correspondent of the newspaper Culture, wipes something about the fact that Cersei is Trump, and the dead are Kim Jong -un, Martin is listening to all this with some facal at the audience’s laughter, then it turns out that the translator all this time did not think to synchronize, and says the next one literally an accent. "Er Ebraut Enemis Ar Dad Mans."
Further, Martin begins to say that this question (his attitude towards Tolkien and the ethical problem of destroying an impersonal enemy, the question of Kholmogorov as a whole was quite appropriate, only very confused) he answered a million times, but I have not listened. I just don’t understand, do we have such a shortage of synchronists from the most popular foreign language in the world? How can you organize international events like this? Though go a volunteer yourself, so as not to disgrace the country.
This phrase, as it were, tells us that this is not quite a translator, but rather an agent or representative of the author’s interests in Russia: “We have no commentary on this question,” the translator said.
I saw yesterday - I don’t know whether it is serious or not - a list of questions from the publishers that cannot be asked Martin. So this is some kind of incomprehensible situation and I would wait for explanations, well, or evidence from other sources.
It would be interesting to hear the version of the translator.
The role of a translator at a press conference was acted by Nikolai Kudryavtsev, senior editor of AST Publishing House; He had not yet shared his version of what was happening. Before the meeting, the journalists were asked not to ask George Martin questions regarding health and politics, Vedomosti reports . In addition, the organizers warned that Martin would not answer questions about the new book - “Wind Winter”. After the journalist of the rain repeated the question of Putin in English, the writer nevertheless gave an answer - however, the most evasive.
Martin publishes Eksmo, a press conference is hanging on their page. The question about Putin was asked twice, the second time a journalist of the "rain" in English. Martin replied: I Don 'T Have Sufficient Expertise to Tell A Bunch of Russian ABOUT RUSSIAN POLITICS, You'VE'VEA to SORT THAT OUT OUT OUT FOR. [My knowledge is not so deep as to share their thoughts about Russian politics with the Russians. You should be more visible.]
The Russian fans were pleased with the message that Martin does not mind adding the events of Russian history to the world of the saga.
We look forward to the appearance in the series Vsevolod Chaplin, Vitaly Milonov and Elena Mizulina 😉
However, it is not worth counting on the fact that the listed characters will appear in the saga: it was about the events of the Middle Ages, Interfax said , quoting the writer's response.
There are no Russian influences in the saga, I mainly draw inspiration from the centenary war, the war and the White Rose, the history of France. I would like to draw something from Russian history, but I read only in English. But if I find something in medieval Russian history, then I will “steal” a couple of things for my world
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Alya Ponomareva
Social Networks Editor Radio Liberty