Thursday, October 28, 2004
(10:38 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Saint Paul
I just went on Amazon.ca and purchased the French translation of Pasolini's screenplay that places Paul in a modern context. Those French bastards have also had Agamben's book on Paul in translation for several years, and I would have bought that, too, except that someone from Standford UP told me that it would be out in English in February.So of course, here I am shopping with Canadian money, and I assume that -- like for most of my life -- it's basically Monopoly money, but then I go to a currency conversion site and see that it's $0.80US per Canadian dollar! I thought it was closer to $0.50US! I have effectively paid $25 for a mass-market paperback French translation of an Italian screenplay that was never filmed. Is this when you know you have a problem? Or is this when you come to recognize that it's already far too late for you?
In any case, if you are in need of French texts, Amazon.ca has literally everything, at fairly reasonable prices. God bless Quebec!
