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"I should like nothing better than to visit your Panama Exposition and meet your wonderful General Goethals, the master builder, for I imagine our jobs are spiritually much akin; that his slogan, too, has been 'durchhalten' ( 'hold out') until endurance and organization win out against heavy odds."
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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Finally, a translator's quibble: durchhalten is not the standard German for suppressing a bowel movement.
'How to Read Elfriede Jelinek': An Exchange Honegger, Gitta 2007
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My thanks to Gitta Honegger for this generous response and above all for her elucidation of the use of durchhalten in the pun that I looked at as an example of translation problems in Jelinek's novel Greed.
'How to Read Elfriede Jelinek': An Exchange Honegger, Gitta 2007
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Characteristically, Jelinek distorts a mundane idiom for a deliberately childish pun in tune with senility that suggests the generation that was exhorted by Hitler to durchhalten — "stand fast" — at Stalingrad.
'How to Read Elfriede Jelinek': An Exchange Honegger, Gitta 2007
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