книжное: Джаспер Ффорде, Nursery Crime
Про книги Ффорде я писала в прошлом году с восторженным писком, когда читала серию Thursday Next. А сейчас я дошла до еще одной его серии, Nursery Crime. Название созвучно с Nursery rhyme - английскими детскими стишками, считалочками и колыбельными.
И в первой части, например, расследуется убийство Шалтая-Болтая!
Того самого, "который сидел на стене" и "свалился во сне".
По-английски этот стишок звучит так:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!
А чуть дальше в книге идет "биографическая справка" о Шалтае: van Dumpty, Humperdinck (Humpty) Jehoshaphat Aloysius Stuyvesant. Businessman, philanthropist, large egg - ну и так далее =)
Расследует преступление детектив Джек Спратт и сержант Мэри Мэри - тоже персонажи стишков, где-то по тексту пробегает Джорджио Порджиа, жестокий и коварный мафиозо, ну и вообще - чудесных обыгрываний там много. Подозреваю, что я "узнаю" не всё - все-таки я не росла на этих стишках, а только читала их в учебниках... Но все равно мне очень нравится, как и все прошлые книги Ффорде.
Читать это можно только в оригинале, и перевода на русский, если честно, не представляю. Если есть кто-то, кто осиливает книги на английском и хоть немножечко "в теме" - очень-очень рекомендую (скачать здесь). Вообще перевод трех книжек из другой серии какой-то скучный и "упрощенный", а в оригинале все так здорово!
Каждая глава начинается с эпиграфа в виде газетной вырезки, цитирующей что-то из детских стишков "в новой концепции". Вот парочка примеров (я даже не поленилась найти стишки), ну и третий - шекспировский - тоже очень понравился.
This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed at home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy went...
"Wee wee wee" all the way home...
PIGGY IN ROAST BEEF SHOCK
A piggy was caught eating roast beef yesterday, in direct contravention of rules governing the use of animal-based products’ being included in animal feed. The piggy, one of a litter of five, was in isolation yesterday as officers from DEFRA tried to trace the other members of his family. A spokesman for the agency had this to say: “Fortunately for us, one of the little piggies stayed at home, and another, when offered the roast beef, refused. A fourth went “wee wee wee” all the way home and is now also in quarantine. We are still trying to trace the first little piggy, who, it seems, went to market. Until he is caught, we have instructed the withdrawal of all pork-related foodstuffs from shops and have decided to cull everything in sight, whether porcine or not, just to be sure.
-Extract from The Gadfly, March 9, 2001
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Solomon Grundy,
Born on Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday:
This is the end
Of Solomon Grundy.
GRUNDY TO WED ON THURSDAY
Billionaire financier, philanthropist and foot-care magnate Solomon Grundy will marry next Thursday, it was announced after Wednesday’s charity polo match. The sixty-five-year-old Monday-born financier who was ill last Friday departs for a walking holiday on Tuesday. He has dismissed calls from his board to stay in Reading until the latest acquisition goes through. “I’ll be dead tired on Saturday,” he quipped to waiting journalists, “but will bury myself in work again on Sunday. Those guys-they’ll be the end of me!”
-Report in The Toad, April 21, 2000
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PRINCE SOUGHT AFTER SLAYING
Police were called to Elsinore Castle yesterday to investigate the unnatural death of one of the King’s closest advisers. Married, a father of two, Mr. Polonius was discovered stabbed and his body hidden under the stairs to the lobby, although fibers recovered from his wound match a wall hanging in the Queen’s bedroom. DI Dogberry, fresh from his successful solving of the Desdemona murder, told us, “We are eager to integrate a Prince who was absurd in the area shortly after.” Sources close to the King tell us that Prince Hamlet has been acting erratically ever since the unexpected yet entirely natural and unsuspicious death of his father eight weeks before.
-Extract from the Elsinore Tatler, June 16, 1408
И в первой части, например, расследуется убийство Шалтая-Болтая!
Того самого, "который сидел на стене" и "свалился во сне".
По-английски этот стишок звучит так:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!
А чуть дальше в книге идет "биографическая справка" о Шалтае: van Dumpty, Humperdinck (Humpty) Jehoshaphat Aloysius Stuyvesant. Businessman, philanthropist, large egg - ну и так далее =)
Расследует преступление детектив Джек Спратт и сержант Мэри Мэри - тоже персонажи стишков, где-то по тексту пробегает Джорджио Порджиа, жестокий и коварный мафиозо, ну и вообще - чудесных обыгрываний там много. Подозреваю, что я "узнаю" не всё - все-таки я не росла на этих стишках, а только читала их в учебниках... Но все равно мне очень нравится, как и все прошлые книги Ффорде.
Читать это можно только в оригинале, и перевода на русский, если честно, не представляю. Если есть кто-то, кто осиливает книги на английском и хоть немножечко "в теме" - очень-очень рекомендую (скачать здесь). Вообще перевод трех книжек из другой серии какой-то скучный и "упрощенный", а в оригинале все так здорово!
Каждая глава начинается с эпиграфа в виде газетной вырезки, цитирующей что-то из детских стишков "в новой концепции". Вот парочка примеров (я даже не поленилась найти стишки), ну и третий - шекспировский - тоже очень понравился.
This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed at home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy went...
"Wee wee wee" all the way home...
PIGGY IN ROAST BEEF SHOCK
A piggy was caught eating roast beef yesterday, in direct contravention of rules governing the use of animal-based products’ being included in animal feed. The piggy, one of a litter of five, was in isolation yesterday as officers from DEFRA tried to trace the other members of his family. A spokesman for the agency had this to say: “Fortunately for us, one of the little piggies stayed at home, and another, when offered the roast beef, refused. A fourth went “wee wee wee” all the way home and is now also in quarantine. We are still trying to trace the first little piggy, who, it seems, went to market. Until he is caught, we have instructed the withdrawal of all pork-related foodstuffs from shops and have decided to cull everything in sight, whether porcine or not, just to be sure.
-Extract from The Gadfly, March 9, 2001
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Solomon Grundy,
Born on Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday:
This is the end
Of Solomon Grundy.
GRUNDY TO WED ON THURSDAY
Billionaire financier, philanthropist and foot-care magnate Solomon Grundy will marry next Thursday, it was announced after Wednesday’s charity polo match. The sixty-five-year-old Monday-born financier who was ill last Friday departs for a walking holiday on Tuesday. He has dismissed calls from his board to stay in Reading until the latest acquisition goes through. “I’ll be dead tired on Saturday,” he quipped to waiting journalists, “but will bury myself in work again on Sunday. Those guys-they’ll be the end of me!”
-Report in The Toad, April 21, 2000
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PRINCE SOUGHT AFTER SLAYING
Police were called to Elsinore Castle yesterday to investigate the unnatural death of one of the King’s closest advisers. Married, a father of two, Mr. Polonius was discovered stabbed and his body hidden under the stairs to the lobby, although fibers recovered from his wound match a wall hanging in the Queen’s bedroom. DI Dogberry, fresh from his successful solving of the Desdemona murder, told us, “We are eager to integrate a Prince who was absurd in the area shortly after.” Sources close to the King tell us that Prince Hamlet has been acting erratically ever since the unexpected yet entirely natural and unsuspicious death of his father eight weeks before.
-Extract from the Elsinore Tatler, June 16, 1408