Michael Farr (1953–)
Autore di Tintin: The Complete Companion
Michael Farr è J. Michael Farr (1). Per altri autori con il nome J. Michael Farr, vedi la pagina di disambiguazione.
Opere di Michael Farr
Vanishing Borders: Rediscovery of Eastern Germany, Poland and Bohemia (Penguin Travel Library) (1991) — Autore — 20 copie
Dupont et Dupond 2 copie
Lampion 1 copia
Zhang (Indonesia Version) 1 copia
Pietro Maxx (Indonesia Version) 1 copia
Milo (Indonesia Version) 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin: Volume 1: 1907-1937 (1900) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 54 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Farr, Michael
- Nome legale
- Farr, Michael
- Data di nascita
- 1953
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- France (birth)
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Paris, France
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Harrow School, London, England, UK
University of Cambridge (Trinity College) - Attività lavorative
- foreign correspondent
author - Organizzazioni
- Reuters
Daily Telegraph - Breve biografia
- Michael Farr was born in 1953 in Paris to an Austrian-Czech mother, Hildegarde Farr (née Pisarowitz) and a British journalist father, Walter Farr. Farr is multilingual in English, French, German and Italian. He wrote a French version of Tintin: The Complete Companion at the same time as he wrote the English version. He now lives in London with his German wife and a daughter.
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- Opere
- 22
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 791
- Popolarità
- #32,200
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 106
- Lingue
- 10
Particularly notable, for me, were his thoughts on the translations to English, and where jokes are lost or effectively rewritten for a different audience. (Sometimes the changes are completely arbitrary, other times you can see the logic.) It's also fascinating to see how - even though almost all the volumes have avoided becoming tied to their political contexts - Herge's life was one of constant upheaval, and Tintin himself faced numerous threats over the years thanks to wars and the transmogrification of Europe during his 50 years on the job.
As I said at the start, any fan will take issue with any "complete companion". For me, I occasionally felt that Farr's personal opinions intruded too much; no one is expected to like all 24 albums, and you can see my reviews of them as proof of this, but the criticisms were unevenly weighted, in my opinion. Beyond this, the book exhaustively chronicles the making-of, and the artistic merit of, the series. There is certainly room for the next generation of Tintinologists to add their own voices to the fray (and for this we should be thankful) but Farr is a great place to start for oh so many reasons.… (altro)