Re: book recommendation

lavenderhouse3812@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 12, 8:11 am, Nann Bell <hanbellGOGAT...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 1:28:27 -0500, Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman) wrote
(in message <AY1ul.15215$3S3.12...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>):

It certainly appears that she is more widely read in Europe because her
books are not readily available in English. Amazon lists two or three,
including the Force of Reason, The Fury and the Pride, and the Letter to
the Child Never Born, but that's about it.
The New Yorker article states "Two of them, ³The Rage and the Pride² and ³The
Force of Reason,² have been translated into idiosyncratic English by Fallaci
herself. (She has had difficult relationships with translators in the past.)"

I can understand that. Most people would translate the word forza as power in this context, in the sense of the power or potential of reason rather than force as in "the force of gravity" (forza de gravita) so this suggests that she thought of forza in the latter sense. I would have made it the Power of Reason.


See:http://www.wordreference.com/iten/forza

^(l)forza noun, feminine strength;
(potenza) power;
(fisica) force;
di ~ by force;
a ~ di by dint of;
con ~ hard;
~! come on!;
in ~ di under, in accordance with;
~ maggiore circumstances beyond one's control;
la ~ pubblica the police;
le forze armate the armed forces;
per ~ against one's will;
(naturalmente) of course;
farsi ~ bear up;
mare ~ 8 force 8 gale;
bella ~! fam big deal!;
che ~! (che simpatico, divertente) cool eh?. forza di gravità [force of] gravity. forza lavoro workforce;
forze pl di mercato market forces. forza di volontà will-power


She makes much of the television images of Palestinians rejoicing after
911, but she does not seem to be aware that those images were phony, in
that they were file films of Palestinians celebrating something else and
were, apparently, deliberately shown in the USA as evidence that the
Palestinians were bad, which seems to be how Ms. Fallaci took them.
Perhaps she finds out later in the book.
Judging by the New Yorker article, she probably never has admitted to that
reality. Her total antipathy towards Islam seems to be long-standing so she
would view the reports of "celebrations' as obvious confirmation of her
attitudes and most likely would think the subsequent reports were propaganda.

Hi Nann,
it is actually very easy to find both Rage and Force. We have them in
our used bookstore here. I just checked ebay and there are multiple
copies of each. If anyone wants to borrow mine, your welcome to
them.

All very well for your to say. I already plowed through half of Force in Italian and got to thinking that I was missing something so I went looking for the English Text.

Please excuse the rambling on, I've been dealing with translations.
.

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