My Swedish wife said that her grandmother sometimes read this book aloud to her when she was a very small girl. The problem is that the two audiences don't find the same things amusing. The early Astrid Lindgren books are hysterically funny, and work equally well for both child and adult readers. And if you've got kids of an appropriate age, pretty much everyone says it's a great bednight book. It's nice and short - I just read the French version, which certainly didn't take more than a couple of hours.
Karlson who lives on the roof for free#
If you want to read it for free online, here are links for Swedish, German, English and Russian. but experience tells me that you are often surprised when you actually look at the data! I predict there will be good correlation. I will compile statistics and find out how well people agree. (World's best experiment in comparative translation studies, guess what that is?) If you have read Karlsson in at least two languages, please message me to say what your ranking is. So, here's the Great Karlsson Experiment. Things don't get funnier when you explain them. How can I know it's funnier in one language than another? I just know, it's bleeding obvious, but as usual with humor it's hard to justify my claims. Not, who's read it in English, pours scorn on my opinions. In French, it's okay but not really anything special. Out of the four I can appreciate, it seems to me the relative quality is pretty clear. (I wish I could read it in Russian, but my command of the language is insufficient). Having read the Swedish original and the English and German translations, I had to get the French one too. Not, who's read it in English, pours sc The Great Karlsson Experiment The Great Karlsson Experiment Having read the Swedish original and the English and German translations, I had to get the French one too. I wonder if Hillary's figured it out as well? She looked almost too confident in last night's debate.more Then, ZAP! we'll see the propeller come out of his back, and he'll fly back into the story to meet Lillebror, who must be missing him horribly. Some brave person just has to get close enough to poke his comfortably rounded paunch in the right place.
Karlson who lives on the roof how to#
as soon as you see it, nothing could be more obvious! The incessant boasting! The naked greed and manipulativeness! The shameless, almost psychotic lying! All delivered with a mischievous twinkle in his eye that makes everyone (well, almost everyone) happy to forgive him his many flagrant transgressions! Damn it all, he even LOOKS like Karlsson!Īnyway, now we know how to stop him. It appeared that we were going to rehearse the same tired old arguments yet again, but K suddenly had a blinding flash of insight: TRUMP IS KARLSSON!!! As it inevitably does these days, the conversation turned to the dismal subject of Lyin' Crooked Donald Trump. as soon as you see it, nothing could be more obvious! The incessant boasting! The naked greed and manipulativeness! The shameless, almost p Our Russian friend K, like me a hardcore Karlsson fan, came round for dinner tonight. It appeared that we were going to rehearse the same tired old arguments yet again, but K suddenly had a blinding flash of insight: TRUMP IS KARLSSON!!! Of course. Our Russian friend K, like me a hardcore Karlsson fan, came round for dinner tonight.
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