{"id":8700,"date":"2025-03-06T23:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T07:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/translations-foreign-editions\/basketball-diaries-spain\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T00:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T08:37:14","slug":"basketball-diaries-spain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/translations-foreign-editions\/basketball-diaries-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Diaries Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spanish Translation of The Basketball Diaries<\/em> by Jim Carroll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Basketball Diary<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a>
By Jim Carroll
Translated by Ricardo Gonz\u00e1lez Bertazioli
Producciones Editoriales, Barcelona, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Esta noche, estoy subiendo a la zona con el tren “A” de Harlem. Est\u00e1 la t\u00eda esa, el tipo aut\u00e9ntico de azafata-secretaria, sentada con las piernas tan generosamente abiertas que veo sus bragas azul claro… Acabo por levantarme, voy hacia ella, y le ruego que, por favor, cierre sus piernas, dici\u00e9ndole que apenas tengo quince a\u00f1os y que me est\u00e1 confundiendo y que aquello es una guarrada, francamente.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This isn’t the usual selection I use, but I was happy to make use of my many years of Spanish classes to ID it. Er … a lot has been omitted in the translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SUMMER 65<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m riding the “A” train tonight, half on the nod and half trying to read a sports magazine. There’s this chick that gets on at 175th St., a real secretary-stewardess type with big tits and the beehive hair job. she’s right across the way from me, hardly any people in the car, and here she is tossing this spread toward me so wide I can see her powder blue panties. What do these faces want out of me, an athletic youth trying to enjoy a nice heroin head and harmless magazine? Finally I got up and went over to her and asked her if she could please close her legs, I’m barely fifteen years old and it’s distracting and, frankly, lewd. Then I went over and sat down again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m lazy, so here’s how Google Translated the Spanish translation back to English:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tonight, I’m getting on the “A” train from Harlem. There’s this chick, the real stewardess-secretary type, sitting with her legs so wide open that I can see her light blue panties\u2026 I finally get up, go over to her, and beg her to please close her legs, telling her that I’m barely fifteen and she’s confusing me and that this is just filthy, frankly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Kinda misses something, doesn’t it?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Basketball DiaryBy Jim CarrollTranslated by Ricardo Gonz\u00e1lez BertazioliProducciones Editoriales, Barcelona, 1982. Excerpt: This isn’t the usual selection I use, but I was happy to make use of my many years of Spanish classes to ID it. Er … a lot has been omitted in the translation. SUMMER 65 I’m riding the “A” train tonight, half … Continue reading Basketball Diaries Spain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4779,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-8700","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-2gk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3993,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/the-basketball-diaries\/the-basketball-diaries-5th-ed\/","url_meta":{"origin":8700,"position":0},"title":"The Basketball Diaries (5th Edition)","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Basketball Diaries5th EditionBy:\u00a0Jim CarrollPublished:\u00a01998Publisher:\u00a0PenguinFormat:\u00a0PaperbackCover photo:\u00a0Michael ZagarisCover design:\u00a0Edward ODowd The fifth edition of\u00a0The Basketball Diaries\u00a0uses a blue-tinted, closeup version of the same photo used on the\u00a0audiobook\u00a0version, and from the same photo session as the\u00a01980 Bantam (2nd) edition. 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