/lit/ - Literature

>>17295387
I prefer Smollett, though it's mostly just a tarted up transcription of previous translations (but tarted up in an appealing way.) Grossman is the worst--there are glaring errors or at least highly inapposite choices in her translations of Golden Age Spanish poetry. It almost makes one wonder whether she has the proper reference materials. Nonetheless, I can see how she's popular with people used to reading contemporary internet journalism, blogs etc.

>>17123561
I disagree. I think Evelyn Waugh has a worldview that goes beyond the aesthetic, one which gives his work some depth, but he doesn't preach about anything. He doesn't even interject narratorial comment of any kind. I would say that when reading Nabokov--a great writer, clearly--one never gets a sense, not only of what he's about but that he's about anything. In short, you don't even get the sense Nabokov has a worldview let alone expresses it through his writing. That's probably how it should be, though, considering Nabokov seemed to revile the concept of comprehensive worldviews or philosophies. He seemed to value dreams and memory highly though, and that comes through with charming regularity. None of this is meant to demean Nabokov, of course.