{"id":1139,"date":"2022-11-20T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2022-11-20T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T10:55:07","slug":"jonahs-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/20\/jonahs-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonah’s Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today my translation of Claude Aveline’s radio play, “La Baleine de Jonas”, or “Jonah’s Whale”, has come out in Delos Journal<\/em> at the University of Florida. I invite you to check it out. It’s accompanied by a long commentary, which together with the translation represents months of unpaid work. My reward is in offering it to you to read, like cooking a meal and inviting you to eat with me.<\/p>\n

“Jonah’s Whale” humorously retells the famous Biblical story of Jonah, but it’s told from the whale’s point of view (though it never was a whale but rather a big fish). Claude Aveline has read between the lines and developed the speech and thoughts of Jonah, a cantankerous prophet who doesn’t want his enemies, the Ninevites, to be saved by his God. He wants them to be destroyed. Nothing has changed in the world since Jonah’s day.<\/p>\n

Delos Journal<\/em> is behind a paywall, so if you subscribe (that is, pay) you can read my work and the work of other translators here: https:\/\/journals.upress.ufl.edu\/delos\/article\/view\/2001\/2357<\/p>\n

The painting above is Jonah and the Whale<\/em> by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), Munich Alte Pinakothek.<\/p>\n

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