scripsi | January talking meme

bearshorty asked; the book that influenced/changed your life.

Easy! Dorothy L. Sayer’s Gaudy Night. i read this book when I was around fourteen and it was the first Sayers I ever wrote. Now all Sayers fans will scream and say that this is the very book you really shouldn’t read first because backstory! Spoilers! Well, that is what I did. And I can tell you I didn’t got about half of it. All those ints of Harriet’s previous history. What dead lover? For all that matters, Lord Peter’s previous history. And I was quite young and a lot of the various discussions about women’s right place frankly went over my head.

There were also some odd things were the plot didn’t go together, but I realised when I read it in English that for reasons unknown, the Swedish translations omits chunks of the book, without ever stating that things are missing. Most are funny, but not exactly plot driving bits, but there is also a whole conversation cut which do have importance as Harriet muses on it later.

But I loved it and even if I didn’t understood everything I also knew I would read this book again. and I fell in love with Harriet. If there is one single character that has had an actual impact on my life, it is her. I wanted to be her; independent and honest and always trying to see both sides of an argument. and I decided to try. Of course, i also made me read all Sayer’s books, which is a very good thing too.

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Harriet! She was an instant favorite for me, too, though I was thirty-something rather than fourteen. I am really curious now about which parts were left out of the Swedish version. Extraneous boating?

A question for the month: What do all your favorite books (or TV shows) have in common?

Or if that's too vague (or the answer is "nothing in particular") Do you have a favorite place? Is it your favorite because of associations or because it's just that great?

There are a lot of little bits here and there, like just a sentence, or so. But Three larger scenes are cut; At the river when Lord Peter and Harriet encounter one of his old school mates. When Lord Peter has bought the chess pieces to Harriet and a drunk Reggie Promfret shows up and tries to start a fight. And a scene at the gaudy when Harriet has a conversation with a woman who was brilliant in school but who has married a Welsh farmer and had a rather hard Life. That scene is cut, but not the aftermath when Harriet ponders a few things from the discussion, which makes for a very odd read when you haven't read it...

And there is absolutely no indication in the translation that there are cuts!

A question for the month: What do all your favorite books (or TV shows) have in common?

Not vague, but I actually answered this in yesterday's Snowflake Challenge post so you can find the answer there. :)

They cut REGGIE? Oh no :(

I can probably understand why those particular scenes were put on the chopping block, but. . . REGGIE :( And yes, it's only polite to indicate that you've cut something, if you're going to make cuts.

(Reggie is my favorite).

I actually answered this

Ah! Well, that's what I get for not keeping up with my friends list. Sorry about that!

To be fair, they only cut that one scene with him. But I find him adorable and in a way it was like being given a gift when I read the book in English. Here is this book I love and has read several times already and look, here is MOAR!

The Swedish translations are a bit strange in that regard, though. Busman's Honeymoon has some short scenes gut and the allusion to Harriet in Murder Must Advertise is gone too.

Ah! Well, that's what I get for not keeping up with my friends list. Sorry about that!

Well, I'm not always that up to date either. :)

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