Apollinaire - French - Vietnamese - Herero

**Magda** · 12-14-2007, 03:51 AM

In the English edition of the book is a text completely written in French. It begins with a poem by Apollinaire. In the French translation this text appears in Vietnamese, whereas the German translation has a version in Herero (Namibia was a German colony until 1909). In which language does this text appear in the Dutch edition?

**heartbreak** · 12-14-2007, 06:45 AM

French

**Magda** · 12-17-2007, 03:26 AM

Aha, dank je wel! Do you have informations about the other editions/translations as well?

**heartbreak** · 12-17-2007, 06:21 AM

Originally Posted by Magda

Aha, dank je wel! Do you have informations about the other editions/translations as well?

Yes. I own all the translations.

**Magda** · 12-19-2007, 05:27 AM

You must be a true fan. And in all these editions Apollinaire is in French?

**heartbreak** · 12-19-2007, 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by Magda

You must be a true fan. And in all these editions Apollinaire is in French?

Either that or I'm just really really obsessed.

My friends like to give me a hard time about that.

US-French
German- Herero (as you've pointed out)
Japanese-French and Japanese
Uk-French
Dutch-French
French-Vietnamese
Greek-French
Serbian-French
Italian-French

Is Herero common knowledge in Germany?

**juxtapolemic** · 12-20-2007, 06:49 PM

Vietnam was a colony of France as the Hereros were members of the German colony in South-West Africa.

Pynchon talks quite a bit about the Hereros, especially their involvement with rocket development in World War II, they're the Schwarzkommando in Gravity's Rainbow. There was also a lengthy scene in V. where some German colonists and Military officers hid out from the Herero uprising.

**heartbreak** · 12-20-2007, 08:43 PM

Good info, Jux. :)

**Magda** · 12-21-2007, 09:53 AM

Thanks, Mr. Heartbreak, for the information!

The Herero uprising is another sad chapter in German history. The first concentration camps were built up there. In the early thirties some thousand africans with a German passport lived in Berlin becoming offers of the Hitlerian race policy after the Nazi takeover. Others escaped to France and joined the Foreign Legion. I don't know whether that is important for Zampanò's story...

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