LAS LENGUAS INGLESA Y ESPAÑOLA de Delfín Carbonell

  "L ike Holden, I don´t feel like going into all that David Copperfield kind of crap, although in my case, a little about my parents you may find more interesting than reading about me." This is how Woody Allen starts his memoirs titled "Apropos of Nothing", translated into Spanish as "A propósito de nada."  En su traducción, Eduardo Hojman nos da su versión de estas primeras palabras: "Al igual que le ocurría a Holden, no me da la gana de meterme en todas esas gilipolleces al estilo de David Copperfield, aunque, en mi caso, algunos pocos datos sobre mis padres tal vez os resulten más interesantes que leer sobre mí." Yo traduciría: " Como a Holden, no me apetece meterme en toda esa mierda estilo David Copperfield, aunque en mi caso, algo sobre mis padres quizá resulte más interesante que leer sobre mí."  No se nos dice quién es Holden. Tampoco sabemos a qué viene eso de David Copperfield. Los que leyeron The Catcher in the Rye en su m...

  Paraphrase: "a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording." Quoting a text in one´s own words, I would say.       The opening words of Salinger´s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) are: "If you really want to know about it, the first think you´ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don´t feel like going into it..." The main character is Holden Caufield, writing that.      Woody Allen has recently published his memoirs, "Apropos of Nothing" and he starts with: "Like Holden, I don´t feel like going into all that David Copperfield kind of crap, although in my case, a little about my parents you may find more interesting than reading about me."       This paraphrase of Woody Allen´s presuposes we know who Holden is, what the cr...