About a week ago, I went to a used bookstore. I found a copy of 'The Brothers Karamazov' for $4.50 CAD. I bought it only knowing a few things I had heard about the book in general.
The translation is by Andrew H. MacAndrew. Has anyone read this translation? Any thoughts about it? Will it ruin my first time with The Brothers Karamazov?
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Read it and see for yourself
>>8037809
Wow. What a smart and intelligent answer.
The book is nine hundred pages long. I don't want to get to page eight hundred, an find out that I'm reading a horrible translation that completely botched the entire message/idea behind the book.
>>8037819
m8 you re reading a translation, if you want to get 'the entire message/idea behind the book' read it in russian
fucking faggots
It's Dostoevsky, it's pretty much unanimously agreed that his prose is awful. You read him for the content, not the style. It really doesn't matter what translation you read for him.
>>8037819
>translation that completely botched the entire message/idea behind the book.
Let's be honest, this can't happen.
>>8037860
>It's Dostoevsky, it's pretty much unanimously agreed that his prose is awful
>>8037869
Name me some great authors who were amazed by his prose.
>>8037819
but what if you've actually enjoyed reading it up to that point, and a better translation would have meant you wouldn't have enjoyed it so much?
you're being quite pessimistic here anon. are you ok? do you need a hug?
>>8037807
You should be grateful to have it.
>>8037887
Nabokov just could stop talking about it.
>>8038263
What is this even supposed to mean?
