Bech (2012)
“At last, one of these young men, the smallest and cleverest, Princeton ’51 or so, noticing the rounded toes of Bech’s American shoes, ventured suspiciously, “I beg your pardon, pazhalusta, but are you—?”
“Could be,” Bech said. After five weeks of consorting with Communists, he felt himself increasingly tempted to evade, confuse, and mock his fellow Americans. Further, after attuning himself to the platitudinous jog of translatorese, he found rapid English idiom exhausting. So it was with some r...elief that he passed, in the next hours, from the conspiratorial company of his compatriots into the care of a monarchial Rumanian hotel and a smiling Party underling called Athanase Petrescu.
Petrescu, whose oval face was adorned by constant sunglasses and several round sticking plasters placed upon a fresh blue shave, had translated into Rumanian Typee; Pierre; Life on the Mississippi; Sister Carrie; Winesburg, Ohio; Across the River and Into the Trees; and On the Road. He knew Bech’s work well and said, “Although it was Travel Light that made your name illustrious, yet in my heart I detect a very soft spot for Brother Pig, which your critics did not so much applaud.”MoreLess
“Could be,” Bech said. After five weeks of consorting with Communists, he felt himself increasingly tempted to evade, confuse, and mock his fellow Americans. Further, after attuning himself to the platitudinous jog of translatorese, he found rapid English idiom exhausting. So it was with some r...elief that he passed, in the next hours, from the conspiratorial company of his compatriots into the care of a monarchial Rumanian hotel and a smiling Party underling called Athanase Petrescu.
Petrescu, whose oval face was adorned by constant sunglasses and several round sticking plasters placed upon a fresh blue shave, had translated into Rumanian Typee; Pierre; Life on the Mississippi; Sister Carrie; Winesburg, Ohio; Across the River and Into the Trees; and On the Road. He knew Bech’s work well and said, “Although it was Travel Light that made your name illustrious, yet in my heart I detect a very soft spot for Brother Pig, which your critics did not so much applaud.”MoreLess
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