108 Did This Literary Classic Have a Mistranslated Title? From Whitman to Hemingway: American Literature in Baseball
Baseball is indeed not a sport well-known to most Chinese people, but as the sport most passionately pursued by Americans in history, it has undoubtedly entered our field of vision in unexpected places through various forms of entertainment such as films and novels. Which literary classic associated with baseball has a mistranslated Chinese title? What was baseball like in the era of Whitman and Mark Twain? Who exactly is Joe DiMaggio, repeatedly mentioned by Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea? How does Philip Roth use baseball to express his literary melancholy? Welcome to this episode of Leftover Talk.
Original Chinese title & description
108 这本文学名著连书名都翻译错了？从惠特曼到海明威：棒球里的美国文学
棒球确实并非大部分中国人所熟知的项目，但作为历史上美国人最为热衷的体育运动，它无疑又借着电影、小说等不同的文娱形式在意想不到的地方，进入我们的视线。是哪部跟棒球沾边的文学名著连中文书名都翻译错了？惠特曼和马克·吐温时代的棒球是怎样的？海明威在《老人与海》中反复提及的Joe DiMaggio到底是谁？菲利普·罗斯又如何借由棒球来抒发他的文学伤感？欢迎收听这一期的《边角聊》。
Participation credit “本期参与者”：沙青青（微信公众号：13号埋立地、小红书：Sha-13号埋立地）。
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