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Schakspir
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Username: Schakspir
Post Number: 1210
Registered: 12-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 05:06 pm: | 
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Who here is reading the new translation? I just started reading it, and I find the language so awkward I can't believe this thing is regarded as a supreme literary masterpiece. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6069
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 01:05 pm: |
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I might take a look--as I said, works lose something in translation and, not knowing Russian, I wouldn't know what.
I have tried to read other translations--have generally shrank from investing a good part of my life in a book.
There was this black writer from Chicago who died a few years ago--Leon Forrest?--he liked to write long uns too. |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 379
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 05:42 pm: |
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I've heard this is the best translation to date and I'll probably give it a try. I'm reading Anna Karenina again right now [an older translation] which is one of my favorite books. It's been years since I last read it and I'd forgotten how much he packs in there. |
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