Ffrench people have a soul, too, and they deserve better
Posted by:
Mateo (---.w90-13.abo.wanadoo.fr)
Date: October 15, 2007 08:15PM
Hello, everyone !
My name is Mateo (it's just a nick), I'm 22 and I'm here today to represent a small group of Ffrench Fforde Ffans and to gather other Ffrench Ffans (if a topic like this one has already been created, please send me the link and let me leave without beating on my head too hard).
I could begin by "Oh la la, Monsieur Fforde est un très bon écrivain, j'adore ses livres, ils me font rire et rêver en même temps", but that's too of an arse-licking, so, I will go straight to the point.
With "First among sequels", that's seven books from Jasper Fforde. In France, only three have been translated (TN 1, 2 and 3), and, more than that, they are pretty bad (translations, not books). It's due to the fact that many bits of the book can't be translated in french (like the hilarious "had had that that" bit in WOLP). And when you google it, there's absolutely nothing on the Internet about Fforde in french (except Amazon).
And that's why the books are hardly known in France : because French version doesn't do justice to Mr Fforde's imagination and most of French people aren't enough open-minded to read in english (yeah, most of french people suck...)
SO, Monsieur Fforde, I speak directly to you (if somebody could pass the message) : we are a little team of 4 or 5 highly motivated people and we wanted to know how we could get the rights to translate the entire jasperfforde.com in order to have a french website in order to gather more french fans in order to make the books more widely known (I'm not sure about the syntax of this sentence), because Thursday Next is worthy to be - at least - as successfully known as Harry Potter.
Thank you all for lis... for reading and sory aboutt the spaling mysstakes.
Have a nice day/night/hour/evening/meal/cow
Mateo
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