Talk:The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

Science fiction
This is a science fiction novel, right? If so, it should be noted in the lead and there is a relavant category for it, too.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:27, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * So, if you "know" this to be the case make the necessary changes, i.e in the lead sentence, the genre in the infobox and add the "Science Fiction novels" category at the bottom. Thanks. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page) / (Desk)  06:30, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I have not read the novel, I just read the article and it 'looks' like a sci-fi novel. I want to see if editors more familiar with the subject would concur.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Astro or cosmo
I think "astronauts" would be the more common name here. I know cosmonaut is often used for Russian astronauts spacemen, but as one of them is American the more common name of astronaut seems the better choice. I will however leave the decision to you. Yes, you! Piet 07:41, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I was wondering the same as I wrote it, but decided to use "cosmonaut" instead of "astronaut" because the book refers to them both as cosmonauts. Undercooked 20:32, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

That's no folktale!
I read somewhere that the story of Naiman-ana (mother of the mankurt, who becomes the bird shown on the book cover) is an original story written by Aitmatov himself. Although it "tastes" like a folktale, it isn't. It is a beautiful story and my favorite part of the book, and I would love to say more about it in the article. Unfortunately I don't have any authoritative sources to refer to, about its provenance or anything else. LandruBek 11:24, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

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Translation of title
The translation of the title - it is unclear without knowledge of the book or Pasternak's original poem whether Aitmatov means "a day" or "the day" but I have a feeling that the Russian title can be translated as in the English title. The given translation is clumsy given that it is more frequent in Russian than in English to come across Subject-Verb-Object structures. "Vek" is clearly the word for century but can denote any particular period of a hundred years. Thus the title translates correctly as the given English title rather than needing a clumsily-worded English equivalent. Lstanley1979 (talk) 22:48, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

In translation
Into which languages has this book been translated, and where might I find an evaluation of their relative quality in relation to the source text? -- Deborahjay (talk) 18:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)