Caballo de Letras becomes The Horse Writer

That’s it, dear readers. Caballo de Letras will also be known as The Horse Writer, which will be a translation of the original blog to English. This will be to reach a larger number of readers.

It wasn’t easy to choose this name, since translating Caballo de Letras as The Horse of Letters would bring to our minds a horse of the former mail service instead of associating it with the meaning of the word letters as it is most understood in Spanish.

Traduttore, traditore... the translator is a traitor. And yes, I have in mind that it is not easy translating to another language a blog of this kind due to the nature of its content but also to the fact that even the original blog is not completely in Spanish.

Being this the case, I apologize before some readers. I know it is not pleasant to find out in the middle of reading a language which is not well known when we supposed that the full text should be in our own language. This often happens in literature, for we cannot always find a published translation of a work to our language. On the other hand, when I quote a certain text I prefer to do this in the language I read it out.

It is sure that my own comments will be translated from Spanish to English here. We will take advantage of this opportunity to reclassify the content of both blogs: if there is a fragment in a language other than Spanish or English and if it is possible to get a professional and already published translation of it we will place the proper translation for each blog. If that’s not the case we could take two courses of action: we could leave the contents in the original language, or which is less probable and less suggested, since we know that translating is an art (this being more notorious in poetry), the collaborators of this blog (I and Adrienne Saur) will try to translate the fragment of the post placed.

There’s only one thing we would like to ask from you and that is patience, since it is difficult that in this blog posts appear at the same amount of time as they do in the Spanish blog.

Alan