Hey /lit/ what translation of brothers karamazov should I get?
Also questions that don't deserve their own thread thead
Just get fucking Garnett, you aren't special
>>7499033
Russian.
I'd suggest looking at the beginning of each online and seeing which style you prefer.
I personally really like P&V, it's a big plus that the wife translates Russian Orthodox theology books professionally, and the husband is a professional prose stylist.
>>7499033
Garnett or Pee in the Vee
Has any one read this? Is it any good?
>>7499070
I've got a copy. I've tried reading it two or three times and I've dropped it by the second chapter each time.
It's great, but I've never felt "ready" to read it because the prose is weird/difficult and it feels like a lot is going over my head. I'd recommend looking it up on Amazon via desktop so you can preview the first chapter or so.
>>7499070
How to into Gass?
I have both the Fagles and the Fitzgerald translations of The Odyssey, has anyone that has read either tell me some pros and cons? I read the Fagles translation of The Iliad, and it was pretty good, aside from some individual lines.
>>7499299
I think Fitzgerald's verse is better, but they're both fairly liberal translations compared to Lattimore or Rodney Merrill.
>>7499323
Thanks, are there any differences I should know about between the spellings of names between translations?
>>7499033
Wikipedia has an excellent section on translations of TBK, which I recommend you read if you're indecisive
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov#Translations
I personally read the David McDuff penguin translation, which wikipedia reckons is the most faithful, although in some cases odd, for example in several cases McDuff chooses to use a Russian loanword where it isn't strictly necessary, although his notes (at the end of the book) are very comprehensive and useful.
I haven't read the P&V translation of TBK, but I've been reading their translation of Anna Karenina and it flows very well and also has good notes, so I assume TBK is solid as well.
Seriously though, choose either P&V or Mcduff, I had a shot at the Garnett version (from Project Gutenberg) of TBK before I bought a hard copy and it truly is noticeably worse.
Thoughts on Tom Robbins? I'm readying Still life with Woodpecker a the moment and he seems like a hack.
The P&V one is the best, just go with that.
>>7499857
yeah, if you like bumpy, uneven prose composed by a geriatric granny who barely speaks cohesive english and an old fart who admits that constance garnett is effectively the greatest translator.
What is the best translation of The Histories?
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nice plebbing itt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEl59biItfY
this is only mildly related, but I'm reading Crime and Punishment currently, translated by Constance Garnett. What the fuck is a, "kammerjunker?"
>>7501763
a scoundrel who presses hands
>>7501082
from the same channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_UUzj2DpkI
>>7499060
Eh, they're pretty bad IMO. A very literal translation that retains a lot of Russian sentence structure (which can sound crap in English.) It's readable, it just seems very clunky. Maybe that's how Dostoyevsky sounds in Russian. From what I've read of McDuff it seems to have less of this problem.
