Jul 10, 2007 20:02
16 yrs ago
Italian term
Quote from Proust
Italian to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
«la magnifica e lamentevole famiglia dei nervosi è il sale della terra» (enervé, cioè malati di nervi, in realtà diceva Proust)
I cannot find this quote in English and I hope someone out there can help me.
TIA Mirella
I cannot find this quote in English and I hope someone out there can help me.
TIA Mirella
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +1 | that splendid and pitiable family which is the salt of the earth. |
Anthony Green
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| 5 +1 | Translation by Mark Treharne (Viking, 2004) |
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Proposed translations
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that splendid and pitiable family which is the salt of the earth.
Hi Mirella
It may be a misquotation/non-literal translation by Yves St Laurent http://www.fashionwindows.com/fashion_designers/ysl/default....
"The magnificent and pitiful family of the hypersensitive is the salt of the earth. It is they, not the others, who have founded relIgions and produced masterpieces."
but perhaps more authoritative but does not have "hypersensitive" where you might expect it
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/p96g/ch...
Submit to being called a neurotic. You belong to that splendid and pitiable family which is the salt of the earth. All the greatest things We know have come to us from neurotics. It is they and they only who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. We enjoy fine music
It may be a misquotation/non-literal translation by Yves St Laurent http://www.fashionwindows.com/fashion_designers/ysl/default....
"The magnificent and pitiful family of the hypersensitive is the salt of the earth. It is they, not the others, who have founded relIgions and produced masterpieces."
but perhaps more authoritative but does not have "hypersensitive" where you might expect it
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/proust/marcel/p96g/ch...
Submit to being called a neurotic. You belong to that splendid and pitiable family which is the salt of the earth. All the greatest things We know have come to us from neurotics. It is they and they only who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. We enjoy fine music
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Comment: "Many thanks, YLS quote is exactly what I was looking for."
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Translation by Mark Treharne (Viking, 2004)
"Feel comfortable to be called a neurotic. You belong to the splendid, pitiable family that is the salt of the earth."
http://www.amazon.com/Guermantes-Way-Marcel-Proust/dp/067003...
http://www.amazon.com/Guermantes-Way-Marcel-Proust/dp/067003...
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| Thank you. |
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Anthony Green
: there are clearly plenty of translations!
4 mins
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yep - ho riportato la prima che ho trovato :) grazie!
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