Mario Taboada wrote:
> To judge by the remainder bins, even top writers who
have
> won Novel prizes don't sell in the US.
Mario, we have to be careful whenever judging ANYTHING by the
remainder bins. Everybody gets remaindered. If you don't find
an author in the remainder bins it's usually a good sign that
the publisher didn't print enough books in the first place.
They never sell all of them, unless the demand has outweighed
their interest in going to another printing, which,
amazingly, happens from time to time. (And even then there
are the eventual returns.)
Of course, finding huge piles of an author's book in every
remainder bin in the city is not a good sign either.
> Even Gþ´¥² Grass
> doesn't sell (and he was translated by the great
Ralph
> Manheim, a guarantee of quality and creativity
in
> translation). I was thinking of this as I browsed
Grass's
> _The Flounder_, whose Manheim translation is a work
of art
> in itself.
I think Grass has done fairly well here. Especially
considering he's a "ferrigner."
But then again, I could be wrong. In these matters, I usually
am.
TL
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