King's books in different languages.

[Lily-sai]

Thank you so much!

What does 'brume' mean?

[Jean]

-The Shining – Shining, l’enfant lumière (Shining, the child of light)

This one is especially unfortunate. It would be hard for me to make myself pick up a book entitled "enfant lumière".

Меховая, brume means mist or fog.

[Lily-sai]

Oh, I see. So they put the Mist as the title of Skeleton Crew.

[batsker]

I found this list on a german SK site and removed the titles that were the same in english. Plus I put in a few of the direct translations if they were different than the english titles.

Brennen muss Salem(Salem must burn) - Salems Lot
Nachtschicht - Nightshift
Das letzte Gefecht(The last Battle) - The Stand
Das Attentat(The Assassination) - The Dead Zone
Feuerkind(Firechild) - Firestarter
Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Tod(Spring, Summer, Fall and Death) - Different Seasons
Schwarz(Black) - The Dark Tower 1- The Gunslinger
Friedhof der Kuscheltiere - Pet Sematary
Der Werwolf von Tarker Mills (Das Jahr des Werwolfs) - Cycle of the Werewolf (Silver Bullet)
Blut (Im Morgengrauen/Der Fornit/Der Gesang der Toten) - Skeleton Crew
Es - It
Die Augen des Drachen - The Eyes of the Dragon
Sie(She/Her) - Misery
Das Monstrum - The Tommyknockers
Drei - The Dark Tower 2– The Drawing of the Three
Nachtgesichter(Night Faces) - Nightmares in the Sky
Stark(Strong, but also the protagonist's pen name) - The Dark Half
In einer kleinen Stadt(In a Small Town) - Needful Things
Tot(Dead) - The Dark Tower 3– The Waste Lands
Das Spiel(The Game) - Geralds Game
Alpträume(Nightmares) + Abgrund(Abyss/Chasm) - Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Schlaflos(Sleepless) - Insomnia
Das Bild(The Picture) – Rose Madder
Glas - The Dark Tower 4– Wizard and Glass
Sara - Bag of Bones
Der Sturm des Jahrhunderts - Storm of the Century
Atlantis - Hearts in Atlantis
Das Mädchen(The Girl) - The Girl who loved Tom Gordon
Das Leben und das Schreiben(The Life and Writing) - On Writing
Duddits - Dreamcatcher
Das schwarze Haus - Black House
Der Buick - From a Buick 8
Im Kabinett des Todes(In the Cabinet of the Dead) - Everythings Eventual
Wolfsmond(Wolf's Moon) - The Dark Tower 5– Wolves of the Calla
Susannah - The Dark Tower 6- Song of Susannah
Der Turm(The Tower) - The Dark Tower 7– The Dark Tower
Puls - Cell
Love - Lisey's Story
Wahn(delusion) - Duma Key
Die Arena - Under the Dome

Amok - Rage
Todesmarsch(Death march) - The Long Walk
Sprengstoff(High Explosive) - Roadwork
Menschenjagd(Manhunt) - The Running Man
Der Fluch(The Curse) - Thinner
Qual(torment) - Blaze

[stone, rose, unfound door]

A lot of the German titles sound so evasive and mysterious... it's hard to imagine what's going to be in the book when you have only those titles.

[Lily-sai]

I agree. Especially Sie(She/Her) - Misery.

[hoin1585]

Traditional Chinese Title's meaning :

DT1 - The Last Gunslinger
DT2 - Three Prediction Cards
DT3 - The Test of the Waste Lands
DT7 - The Door of Ka

Skeleton Crew - The Story Vending Machine
Green Mile - Green Miracle
Misery - Scary Game
Heart in Atlantis - Don't Forget Me

[michalz00]

Here are the Polish titles:

Carrie - Carrie
Miasteczko Salem - Salem's Lot
Lśnienie or Jasność - The Shining
Bastion - The Stand
Martwa strefa - The Dead Zone
Podpalaczka - Firestarter
Cujo - Cujo
Christine - Christine
Rok wilkołaka - Cycle of the Werewolf
Cmętarz zwieżąt - Pet Sematary
Talizman - The Talisman
To - It
Oczy Smoka - Eyes of the Dragon
Stukostrachy - The Tommyknockers
Misery - Misery
Mroczna połowa - The Dark Half
Sklepik z marzeniami - The Needful Things
Gra Geralda - Gerald's Game
Dolores Claiborne - Dolores Claiborne
Bezsenność - Insomnia
Rose Madder - Rose Madder
Zielona mila - The Green Mile
Desperacja - Desperation
Worek Kości - Bag of Bones
Pokochała Toma Gordona - The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
Łowca snów - Dreamcatcher
Czarny Dom - Black House
Buick 8 - From a Buick 8
Mroczna Wieża I: Roland - The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
Mroczna Wieża II: Powołanie trójki - The Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three
Mroczna Wieża III: Ziemie jałowe - The Dark Tower: The Wastelands
Mroczna Wieża IV: Czarnoksiężnik i kryształ - The Dark Tower: Wizard & Glass
Mroczna Wieża V: Wilki z Calla - The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla
Mroczna Wieża VI: Pieśń Susannah The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah
Mroczna Wieża VII: Mroczna Wieża - The dark Tower: The Dark Tower
Colorado Kid - Colorado Kid
Komórka - Cell
Historia Lisey - Lisey's Story
Ręka mistrza - Duma Key
Pod kopułą - Under The Dome

I have to say these are accurate translations. The biggest exeption is Duma Key (Ręka Mistrza). It means something like The Hand of the Master or The Master's Hand.

[Bev Vincent]

I'll be interviewing the long-time Italian translator of King's books for my next Cemetery Dance column. He is also translating The Stephen King Illustrated Companion.

[Stockerlone]

German article about some ´crazy-bad-stupid´ Book titels


http://hollarius.wordpress.com/2009/...che-buchtitel/

[Brice]

Could you possibly translate it? I'll understand if it's too much trouble though.

[Stockerlone]

Ok. i try my best:

It´s a critic regarding a report in a Stephen King Forum in Germany about ´bad, senseless..´ names of Stephen King books.
An old-good 100% correct translation was IT=ES, but then the King Publisher in Germany
thinks, short titels are a beautiful idea....
The first ´stupid´ name was SIE - She for Misery. But then the worst comes.
For: “The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger” - Schwarz - Black
The Drawing of the Three” - DREI - 3
- Tod - dead
- Glas - glas
- Wolfsmond - wolfmoon
- Susannah - ---
- Der Turm - The Tower

The the autor listed of more examples of the German ´Translations´
The Girl who loved Tom Gordon” - Das Mädchen - The Girl.
Dreamcatcher” - Duddits´ Why not Traumfänger- the translaton
Then she writes about the newest NAME. Every SK fan knows that there is a unpublished
Novel - Blaze. But in germany the publisher think QUAL - pain, torture is a better title.
Then comes Duma Key - in Germany Wahn - Craze
And then comes the proof of the IQ less of the translator of the books, Lisey’s Story
in germany LOVE ... Why , why not Lisey´s Geschichte or Lisey.... Why Why...

This is a very short short roundup of the article... Sorry for my english it´s a little bit rusty.

[Brice]

Thank! And yes those are some pretty bad translations for the titles.