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Post them, lads.
Funny, you won't understand any of them either m8. Fuck off, this thread is old.
>>7515807
I wonder who's behind this post
>>7515807
>OP or how to trigger a roastie
I think I finally 'get' the
>he reads translations
meme. For years I just assumed it was pseudointellectual wankery but I've come to realize the credence behind it after reading novels by Saramago, Boris Vian, Houllebecque and a few others.
When I was younger I enjoyed the shit out of P&V Russian translations and never saw a problem in the slightest but now I'm beginning to see how absolutely pointless it is to even read translated works by a lot of authors. The fire of their prose is completely extinguished....
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>he didn't read Odysseus in ancient Greek
what a pleb
>>7515667
Barely relevant, but Douglas Hofstadter wrote an excellent book on literary translation titled 'Le Ton Beau de Marot'.
>>7515704
Odyssey would literally be a perfect example of what I'm referring to. And everything else by Homer, for that matter, fucking trite and boring slog, yet it was literally those works which held together the Greek city-states and connected the Mediterranean culture and civilization.
>87 years old
>Still conducts lectures
I think hell be fine
>>7515593
i like this new meme :3
>>7515593
>53
>under the ground
I think hell be fine
>91 years old
>still writing the best shit since Joyce
I think hell be fine.
EULIA!
REDWALL!
>Furries
MARTIN!
