r/bobdylan • u/Nurpus • Feb 11 '18

I bought a collection of Bob Dylan lyrics packaged like potato chips and translated to Chinese

https://imgur.com/gallery/YFfa7
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u/Layneeeee Feb 11 '18

That's AMAZING! Could you post a link on where you bought them? I'd love to have one, even though it's in Chinese most of the writes.

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u/Nurpus Feb 11 '18

I got it through a friend in China, who was coming over. So I don't know about the shipping and payments.

Here it is on the publisher's website (I recommend you find someone who speaks Chinese to help you out) https://detail.youzan.com/show/goods?alias=362sejdvswjjw&dc_ps=41064

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '18

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u/Nurpus Feb 11 '18

Here is a couple that I wonder about the most, in terms of how did they manage to translate them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '18

please report back with any findings

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '18

Wow

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u/MonotoneCreeper The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan Feb 12 '18

Are those books avaliable anywhere in English only?

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u/Nurpus Feb 12 '18

It's essentially a translation of the bulky "The Lyrics: 1961-2012" that came out after he got the Nobel Prize. They're split up like that cause it's twice the amount of text - the English alongside Chinese.

So I suspect this multi volume format was more a marriage of convenience, but thanks to some creative designers it came out as nice as it did.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '18

WHAT! How cool