/lit/ - Literature

>>18701687
Again, I understand your perspective and I probably would look for the original text but from an editorial perspective it makes sense to release literary works that convey the story and theme while omitting naming names and specific dated lines of rhetoric. If Hamlet had a 10 page essay about killing Jews and how much Jews should be murdered and gutted that didn't have much else to do with the story, removing it wouldn't really change much.

Try to picture all your favourite books as having ten page essays about sodomizing boy infants and skinning them alive and editors just having cut that out, it wouldn't change much. Besides, unless if you're reading the original version in the original language you're already reading something else. No translation of Inferno is by Dante, but by the respective translator.
>>18701692
Thank you for your reply