> -----Original Message----- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description > and Access [mailto:rd...@infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca] On Behalf Of > Weinheimer Jim > Sent: 16 decembrie 2008 10:29 > To: RDA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] FRBR, RDA, and Platonism > > Of course, there is a problem: almost nobody in the real > world is interested in the "work" as such. Very few people > indeed want the complete "work" of War and Peace, or of the > Atlantic (Monthly) magazine. They want either specific > expressions of War and Peace (English, French etc.), or they > want individual articles or issues. People are also > interested in different versions of expressions (e.g. > translated by Constance Garnett into English, 1932 version) > but very few are also interested in the Greek and Japanese > expressions as well. Although some perhaps.
Yes, of course. But an essay about War and Peace could be "interested" in the "work" W & P, in its most abstract form (I was just about to use the word "incarnation" :-). > > Jim Weinheimer Dan
