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Which publisher has the best French to English translation of Madame Bovary?
>>7984419
The Francis Steegmuller translation - by a mile.
So I was invited to work on a short story for an upcoming anthology, one based around old folk tales/myths/fairy tales/legends. I was told a preference would be given to non-Western folk tales and legends, and due to my experiences working in China and speaking Chinese I chose a legend from that area.
My question is a rather simple one: should I use the traditional Chinese name system (last name first, referring to one another by last name until people get to know one another) or do you think it would be too confusing for Western readers? I don't want to bug the...
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Argh, I put so many typos in that post, here goes nothing:
*the anthology is folk tales retold in a sci-fi setting
*last name first, referring to one another by last name until further aquainted
*I don't want to bug the editor about it
My first drafts, as you can tell, are always atrocious. So much editing x.x
I don't think the last-first order will be confusing, as long as characters' first names are said a lot afterwards, or you say something silly and explicit like "Qingqing, daughter of the Gao family." I'm a dramafag so my opinion might be skewed, though.
In my writing on China I use the Chinese name system. It's not that difficult to adjust to when you're reading, I find, and it's only a slight cultural detail that adds a lot to how you depict your character's relationships. Go for it.
how much do you remember after you read?
especially with nonfiction or abstract stuff - i usually have a hard time recalling enough to discuss anything in great detail afterward. is this normal?
>>7984376
bump
Sure, you aren't supposed to memorize every single book. Specially if you read a lot of random books.
>>7984376
After every reading session explain what you just learned to an imaginary friend. It will substantially boost your retention.
What are some truly emotionally moving stories?
>>7984329
Good Old Neon by DFW. Not memeing. It's long for a short story but genuinely great.
hat's the point of bathing? Grooming is a 21st century invention. Humans are animals...I commit to being the noble savage, to being purely authentic, as such I do not trim my nails, bathe, or cut any sorts of bodily hair. The concept that tools such as a toothbrush is a necessity is horseradish, and is as easily to dismiss as circumcision.
Surely some likeminded, literary gentlemen agree?
>>7984212
I know this is a joke post, but brushing your teeth really isn't necessary if you don't eat any modern crap.
Cutting your hair, bathing and trimming your nails certainly have primitive precedence, just not as frequently nor with soap.
>>7984222
It's not a joke post, I idealize Diogenes. Fluoride is mind control, it's why toothpaste is marketed. Would you like to see my fingers
>tfw you realize we're all hacks who write doggerel and none of us are going to ever produce a work of merit
Lotta spooks. Lotta mooks. Lotta youks.
>>7984206
I am perfectly okay if nothing I write ever even gets published. I enjoy writing. What is nobler or more fulfilling than pure creation?
>>7984209
>le everything is a spook xD *holds up spork*
Stirner was an incredibly insecure and defensive man, his cold persona was born out of him being a literal cuckold to both his wife and the Catholic Church.
Suggest some good books for my /lit/
some of your favourites, maybe just really good ones.
I love The Call of the Wild and White Fang, I think they're best read together.
Some of my all-time favs
Easy/quick reads:
My Ántonia - Cather
The Age of Innocence - Wharton
Smith of Wootton Major - Tolkien
Anthem - Rand
If on a winter's night a traveler - Calvino
Long/hard reads:
Mason & Dixon - Pinecone
Le Morte d'Arthur - Malory
Middlemarch - Eliot
Poetry:
Transformations - Sexton
Assorted poems by C. Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson
Obscure stuff that'll make you feel smart:
The Red Lily - France
Daughter of the elm - Hall
>>7984321
>My Ántonia - Cather
I love that book. Straightforward, yet beautifully written.
Define "soul"
>>7984099
define ''define''
>>7984099
This book is for you.
>>7984126
yo why u gotta be like that? gud point tho
Romeo and Juliet is shit because of its plot. Does this trigger any of you?
almost everything type out on imgur and reddit bother me so yes it does.
>>7984511
but this is from 4chan
>>7984523
i just wanted to say what i wanted to say
You know all the Wordsworth editions with the strange covers?
Check this out. Not strange at all. Maybe plain lazy. But not strange.
I bought old versions of War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov today, the covers, I think, were trying to attract middle-aged single women.
The covers are ugly but at least they were cheap.
>The most kind man ever just happens to be born from the heights of nobility
I really starting to agree with corncob fuck this authoritarian cuck.
Whats this got to do with Corncob?
>the nicest man ever can't be born to nobility
Are you actually retarded? Check my numbers fool
Is this book worth reading?
>>7983973
Why does this cover look like a spongebob title screen lmoa
>>7983973
Yes, it is.
Read the first 50 pages. You can read the rest of you enjoy. Otherwise you're pretty much good.
Rate the first paragraph of my short story.
In the same vein as all ghost stories, a story of spook, or terrible tale of fright, this begins like every other: with innocence. With arrogance. With hubris. Within a quite average house. In the heart of Siberia where the white wind always howls is where it begins. Yet, what preludes this tale is a train ride to deposit a madman. For only three people come to this village: convicts, convicts’ guards, and the brutally insane
>>7983959
2/10 cheesy and forced af
good god I wish hemingyway spawned some imitators.
>>7983965
How would you fix it?
How old were you when you first read The Communist Manifesto? I was 15 years old.
I haven't read it.
I'm still reading Capital.
My friend did an ironic dramatic reading of it at a bar once when we were seventeen.
ITT: Your favourite book from your home town
>Mexico City
How about none because my hometown is in the middle of nowhere.
Goyania, Goyaz.
>>7983989
>goyania
>goyaz
