miyako73
12-16-2012, 12:16 AM
This is the only book I finished reading in three hours, the only book in which I could not wait to move on to the next page, the only book I wished I were the writer. I want to write the way Bauby wrote--intelligent, witty, stylish, elegant, simple, clear, funny, and engaging.
"Through the frayed curtain at my window, a wan glow announces the break of day."
"If I drool, I may as well drool on cashmere."
"Like the sailor who watches the home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede."
Lines like these, simple but elegant, make me feel glad there is such thing as literature.
But here are my questions:
Who wrote the book I just read? Was it Bauby or his translator? Is the original French better than its English translation?
"Through the frayed curtain at my window, a wan glow announces the break of day."
"If I drool, I may as well drool on cashmere."
"Like the sailor who watches the home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede."
Lines like these, simple but elegant, make me feel glad there is such thing as literature.
But here are my questions:
Who wrote the book I just read? Was it Bauby or his translator? Is the original French better than its English translation?