The Ascent Of Rum Doodle (Vintage Classics)

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Humphrey Jungle - radio expert and route finder, who is constantly lost and requires rescue frequently - radio callsign - Wanderer (although he proposed pathfinder for himself which was not accepted). Cuando estás colgando indefenso del extremo de una cuerda de 100 pies de largo es importante saber que el hombre que hay en la otra punta es un verdadero amigo”.

Buna ek olarak, çeviri diline değinmek gerekirse, lafı çok dolandırmadan diyebilirim ki, akıcılığı bozmayan ve mizahla okurun arasına çok girmeme başarısını sergileyen bir çeviri dili söz konusu. Bazı çeviri tercihleri tartışmaya açık olsa da (belli yaş gruplarındaki sözcük ve ifade tercihlerinde bir kayma olduğunu düşünüyorum mesela), ortaya başarılı bir iş konduğu söyleyebilirim. Daha ilk sayfalarında beni Catch-22 kadar eğlendiren ve tabiri caizse kahkahalara boğan bir roman okumayalı uzun zaman olmuştu. Hükmedici bir macera ve keşif kültürünü tiye almakla kalmayıp, bir yandan da dönemin ruhunu ve o ruhtan muzdarip "kahraman"ların diğer kültürlere çarpık bakışını bu kadar komik şekilde eleştiren bir eser ölümsüzlüğü çoktan hak etmiştir gözümde. The Ascent of Rum Doodle is a short 1956 novel by W. E. Bowman (1911–1985). It is a parody of the non-fictional chronicles of mountaineering expeditions (notably H. W. Tilman's account of the ascent of Nanda Devi and Maurice Herzog's book Annapurna chronicling the first ascent of Annapurna in Nepal) that were popular during the 1950s, as many of the world's highest peaks were climbed for the first time. A new edition was released in 2001 with an introduction by the contemporary humorist Bill Bryson. It has been critically well received. Though a parody, it has become one of the most famous and celebrated books of mountaineering literature.

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Pong’s cooking not only gives the men indigestion (much is made of cramps, stomach aches, nightmares, belches, pills and tablets) but is considered by its creator to be an art form: at any hint of criticism ‘he went into a kind of frenzy and threatened us with knives’. In addition, the men are prone to a series of mysterious ailments – valley lassitude, glacier lassitude, Base Camp lassitude, Italian measles, altitude deafness and vertigo, among others – but of course there is always that ‘medicinal’ champagne to hand and, as you would expect, disaster follows on from disaster. As a child, I lived in a grey granite house on the edge of the Cairngorms. In front of the house, across the road, was a municipal park with asphalt paths and tidy lawns but if you squeezed through a gap in the railings, you could climb up a hill covered with blaeberries and harebells. At the summit someone had built an octagonal pagoda – Scotland, contrary to its dour image, is full of strange fancies and follies – and I used to sit up there, under the gilt roof, gazing across to the rim of blue hills in the distance, where there was snow even in summer. There is Binder, the kindly, dogged, reliably under-insightful leader of the party; Jungle the route finder who cannot find his way to any assembly point and is forever cabling apologies from remote and inappropriate locales; Wish, the scientist, who passes the sea voyage by testing his equipment and discovers that the ship is 153 feet above sea level; Constant, the language expert who, through errors of grammar and syntax, constantly provokes to fury the Yogistani porters; and the terrifying cook Pong, whose arrival at each camp spurs the men on to ever greater heights. The second funniest work of fiction I have ever read... It's a good example of British surrealism. The British never really regarded surrealism as a serious artform and most examples of British surrealism are in fact strange comedies with no especial interest in the concerns of the original Surrealists (Freudian psychology, automatic writing, unpalatable honesty regarding sexual desires, etc). I added this book to my to-read shelf after reading this blog post. After reading it, I fully endorse it as worthy of adding to your to-read shelf as well.En una expedición de esa naturaleza, los deseos individuales han de estar subordinados a la causa común”.