Talk:Robert Merle

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More information about this article... The following comments have been left for this page: The French history series virtually untranslatable? maybe into English, if you really need to put it to 17th century tongue, but reading the Hungarian translation is really entertaining and educational; maybe 17th century Hungarian is not that far from the present day one as the English equivalents. One of the fun is the taste of the olde worlde language... (edit)

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"Recreating the French 16th and 17th century..." isn't good English. Does he recreate the French of this period, or the France?

Molinari

Erm yes - you're right - I think I culled a sentence relating to the language (he writes the box in period French) and got it confused... Off to correct it :D MarkBoydell

Quote: "he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable"

Says who? Does that mean other works from the 16th and 17th century like Shakespeare and Molière are "virtually untranslatable"? --Stéphane Charette (talk) 04:45, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I have a distinct recollection of a British edition of "The Day of the Dolphin" (It must have been around the time of the film) which managed to omit all quote-marks, yet was full of direct speech by characters. Maybe he just suffered from bad translators?Zhochaka (talk) 22:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)