It seems like there should be translations available given the public domain status of Lovecraft's work.
Where can I find them?
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1Also see this question about how to find out if any book in general is available in Esperanto: esperanto.stackexchange.com/questions/799/…– user90Commented Oct 10, 2016 at 23:01
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5I don't think this is a duplicate. 1) the other question deals with the mere existence of a translation, whereas this question means finding it to read it. 2) The top answer on the other question is "write a library to ask". We as a community can certainly find a better response than that! As the other answers make clear, we can't even trust Amazon. This question makes sense to me. I'll be posting a question on meta to solve this topic by voting.– Charlotte SLCommented Oct 11, 2016 at 15:00
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I am not sure there is that much difference between How can I find out if a book has been translated to Esperanto? and Where can I find Lovecraft books in Esperanto? The first question is telling how to find a book translation, while this is asking where to find a translation of a specific book.– avpaderno ♦Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 17:22
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4@kiamlaluno I don't understand the reason for this change: "the question title doesn't count as question". Is this written somewhere as a Stack Exchange rule or recommendation?– Charlotte SLCommented Oct 12, 2016 at 19:40
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1@kiamlaluno If you don't understand it from what I have written, re-read Andrew Woods' answer to the question. For example: "However, this is a serious issue which is yet to be properly dealt with." "Furthermore, there are unscrupulous people selling machine translations of famous novels on Amazon, and it seems that luckless beginners are buying them." But that is why I want to solve this question on meta and not in the comments: meta.esperanto.stackexchange.com/questions/142/…– Charlotte SLCommented Oct 12, 2016 at 20:29
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One of Lovecraft's friends, J. F. Morton, Jr., spoke Esperanto, but I don't know if he translated any of Lovecraft's work.
A translation by Don Harlow of Pickman's Model
An anonymous translation of the short-short Memory
The opening of a translation by Sonja Elen Kisa of The Festival (no longer available in full)
A translation by Charlotte Burton and Tim Rice of Call of Cthulhu
That's all I can see for the moment (which is somewhat surprising).
Be very careful about buying anything without a preview, as I think this author might eventually be targeted by the people who sell fraudulent machine-translations.
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The Festival, la soleno, isn't complete, as far as I can see? (Or am I missing part of it?) The story ends abruptly for me when he is knocking on the door. hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/f.aspx Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 19:45
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Unfortunately, it looks as though the whole of it was formerly available on her website but isn't any longer. Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 19:54
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"Esperantist" sounds quite cult-like. It would be cool if you could change that to "Esperanto speaker." Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 20:22
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I used the National Library of Austria's database to search for books by Lovecraft. It returns 0 results. The other two libraries don't seem to have any online search functions.
I know that it isn't true that there is nothing of H.P. Lovecraft in Esperanto, so I searched further and asked on Telegramo's Literatura Babilejo (thank you, Salva!). In addition to Andrew's suggestions, here are a few more:
La terura maljunulo on literaturo.org, formerly Don Harlow's collection.
And La Sorĉado de Ulua (The Witchcraft Of Ulua).
This book says there is a translation of The Colour of Space.
I've begun translating his complete fiction. I intend to publish it as a single volume in hardcover. I'm already looking for a publisher. I've completed several of the shorter stories and am working on The Shadow over Innsmouth now.
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“Keep your goals to yourself.” --Derek Sivers ted.com/talks/…– user1581Commented Mar 9, 2021 at 12:50