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Surely somebody reading this is fluent in Spanish.
I'm updating and revising and expanding my essay, "Hope-in-the-Mist" for book publication, and I need to know what the title for the Spanish translation of Hope Mirrlees's Lud-in-the-Mist translates as in English.
The title is Entrebrumas.
If you can help, my humble thanks. Also, my genial envy. I cannot imagine how beautiful Gabriel Garcia Marquez's books must be in the original.
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Entre brumas is "inside mist", or "surround by mist". I prefer the first one [the second might be "entre la bruma", in spanish mist can be singular (bruma) or plural (brumas) whitout any change in the meaning].
And yes, GGM books are beautiful :D! but in turn I'm unable to read Moby Dick in english!
Yep, "in mist". I wonder what happened to Lud?
I agree with the "inside mist" translation...the image that comes to mind hearing the word is of standing inside a thick, swirling mass of mist...completely enveloped in it....It's actually a lovely word I must say.
Gracias, everyone "Inside mist" it is.
Translation is a complex and subtle thing and doubtless the translator had a good reason for dropping the Lud. The German title Flucht ins Feenland was necessitated by the fact that Lud-in-the-Mist literally translates as Lud-in-the-Manure. Scout's honor.
Oops. I forgot to translate the German. It means "Flight into Fairyland."
My two cents, too late as always: "Amidst the mist", although the alliteration makes it sound a little forced.
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