/lit/ - Literature

What translations of classic works of literature can we all agree are the current best ones?

inb4 chart wasn't made by me. so go complain elsewhere.

>>18850061
Try checking the /lit/ wiki

>>17498343
Not restricted to Dante, but it's something

>>17020651
Maude is pretty good, probably the best (it's my favourite at least). Next time you have a translation question just go onto warosu.org and search the book name and the translator's name like "Maude" or "Briggs" or "P&V" and see what people have to say. Or just write in "War and Peace best translation," chances are many people have asked the same questions or there has been a thread that has discussed who is the greatest translator in detail for a specific author and or book.

are there flowcharts for Gaddis or Markson?
>>14459105
this and

>>13884762
Wrong chart, fuck

>>13504207
Thanks anon. I was actually debating between that and the Grossman version because I had this pic from some time ago.

Why does lit always discuss the Greek and Roman epics (Homer, Virgil etc) but rarely the Christian epics, I.e. Divine Comedy, Jerusalem Delivered and Paradise Lost?
The fact that the bible is always discussed here makes this even more confusing. Let's have a thread on Christian Epics.

>>13321846
McDuff

>>13048556
pic related?

>>13042235
I'm very skeptical of chart threads. I swear most of the people in here just like collecting charts without reading anything

is there any real value in getting a /lit/ approved translation of a book, outside of religious works?

say, for example, The Divine Comedy, Plato's works and Meditations?

Is the Hays translation of Meditations really better than Hammond?

>>12565592
it's on my list; i haven't started reading it. pic related recommends Easwaran

in search of lost time is probably the best thing i ever read, one of my favs.
i have read the whole vol in both french and english and pic related es totally rec