April 27, 1912
Was born Nora GalA translator of English and French literature, she gave Russian-speaking readers Camus's "The Stranger," Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," McCullough's "The Thorn Birds," and dozens of other works. "The Little Prince's Mother" is her translation of the fairy tale. Saint-Exupery is considered the standard. It is in her words that the beautiful is composed: "Only the heart can see clearly. The most important things cannot be seen with the eyes." or "We are responsible for those we have tamed.".
The writer is responsible to those who read him in his native language. The translator is responsible for the translated author. And if the author's intention and very image are distorted, if a good book turns out boring in translation, and a great writer uninteresting, then the translator is truly a barbarian and a criminal.
She was born in Odessa, into a family of a doctor. Jacob and lawyers Frida GalperinShe grew up in Moscow. She graduated from a pedagogical institute and taught foreign literature. During the war, she lost her husband, leaving her with a young daughter. She began translating in the late 1940s. She was a representative of the "Kashkin school"—translators striving for maximum artistic persuasiveness in their translations.
It was necessary to translate not the word, not the letter, but the spirit and meaning
In mathematics, the sum doesn't change when the terms are rearranged. But how the sum of feelings and moods, the musical and emotional resonance of a phrase, changes when the same words, sometimes just one word, are rearranged!
In 1972 she published a book that became a bestseller - "The Living and the Dead Word"A manifesto from someone who feels almost physical pain when living and beautiful language is mutilated through stupidity or ignorance. The main problem, she saw, was bureaucratic jargon and cliches that make speech seem shabby, dull, and boring.
Officialese is dead language. It permeates fiction, everyday life, and spoken language. Even children's language. From official materials, newspapers, radio, and television, officialese is becoming part of everyday life.
The book, which contains examples of successful and unsuccessful work with language, has been reprinted 10 times.
In memory of the translator, who passed away in 1991, one of the minor planets was named Noragal.