/lit/ - Literature

>>23274368
The anon from a few weeks back was me, and I’m not the person who you’re responding to here, lol. He has good taste in books though.

>>23274147
Any thoughts on Swann’s Way? I really loved the Modern Library revised translation when I read it. I’ve started reading the Penguin Classics translation by Lydia Davis to see how the two compare, although I’ve been too distracted to come up with a definitive opinion on anything yet

>>23222731
The Modern Library edition from 1981, translated by Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and Andreas Mayor, revised by D. J. Enright. I would highly recommend it. I found the first two volumes in a used bookstore and bought them on a whim, and then loved them so much that I ordered the complete boxed set shortly after (picrel is a comparison of my original secondhand paperback copy of Swann’s Way and the newer copy that came in the boxed set). There are also fairly good ebook versions of that particular translation—my local library has the ebooks available to borrow, so yours may as well. And it looks like the EPUBs of that particular edition are available on Libgen, though I can’t personally attest to the quality/formatting.