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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While The Witcher series has been a popular one for Netflix, the books on which it's based haven't been nearly as popular across the globe as they might have been thanks to one aspect being badly handled by publishers. The Witcher books by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski have grown into a sprawling multimedia franchise comprised of 15 short stories, six books, a video game series, comic books, tabletop RPGs, and more.
The Witcher English Translations Are Generally Regarded As Mediocre To Pretty Bad Translations Across Language Families Can Be Tricky Close While Reddit and other parts of the internet don't speak for the whole, the consensus among Witcher readers on forums and in the wilds of social media is that the English translations of The Witcher books are, to say the least, not great.
Beyond that, readers seem to be in agreement that the English translation of The Witcher is quite wooden and robotic, stripping out much of the wordplay and richness of Sapkowski's original Polish passages. While there was some increase in demand for the books upon the announcement of the show, real demand didn't increase until the first season of the Netflix series. It could be that Orbit didn't want to commit too much to a huge initial print run, and that it wasn't as invested in the quality of its translation until it saw just how successful the show would be.
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