Need suggestions: books on obssession/paranoia in the spooky way, either fiction or non fiction
Crime and Punishment is your book.
>>7614409
Sweet. Thanks m8, found a the penguin edition for $5, is it good (in english, although I am brazilian)?
>>7614419
I think that's the McDuff translation. If that's the one, it's excellent and the same I read. Highly praised.
Avsey's translation is another option.
>>7614453
Avsey didn't translate C&P. The other good modern translation is from Oliver Ready. Magarshack is good too,
>>7614465
This is correct. I was thinking about TBK when I recommended translations, although I did read McDuff's C&P.
Where did you find that book at 5 dollars OP?
>>7614402
Almost anything by Philip K. Dick.
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_fiction.
>>7614485
In a very cool site. As I said I am brazilian, so there is this website that all the used book stores and/or physical person all over the country can register books to sell, so I just search books in that site, filter it for my city and go direct to the store I saw the book in the site. Or I can get shipped from other states but anyway, its heaven!
>>7614520
Estante virtual? Se sim, aproveita e pega os livros do Philip K. Dick por lá, tem bons preços. Os do Pynchon são ridiculamente caros, though. Nada de relançarem.
>>7614419
>reading a translation in a language that is not your native language
read it in Portuguese
>>7614560
Oh, I wasn't aware that this isn't /int/ and that he speaks English, sorry.
>>7614402
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
>>7614560
Book depository is the shit. And based Macri lifting the lock on those there dollars and the importation of books was great.
I tend not to care a lot about translations, I just look for the books that seem serious or ask my librarian. Perhaps /lit/'s obsession over translations might be a bit overblown. When reading Russian or French authors I just have to accept that it will never be the same as reading the original work
>>7614577
Macri isn't based. Things sound better than they are but anyway, at least we have Book Depositary. A 30 dollars book got lost, contacted support and 20 minutes later they gave me a reply apologizing and saying they were sending new copy. No questions asked.
Regarding translations, I think Russian is the language I'm most scrupulous about. I'd suggest you do the same.
Not to contribute to the memes, but most of Thomas Pynchon's books deal with paranoia and he captures the feeling really well
