[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 146 KB, 800x533, Genji book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
12416557 No.12416557 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone else reading this? I'm 300 pages in and like it so far. What translation are you using?

>> No.12416572
File: 225 KB, 517x445, 1544841939102.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
12416572

>>12416557
>translation
ばか

>> No.12416575

>>12416572
you can read 11th century Japanese? Wow!

>> No.12416580

>>12416572
Japanese have to use a modern translation, dumbass

>> No.12416587

>>12416575
At what century do they need to stop using one?

>> No.12416589
File: 1.03 MB, 1920x1080, 1539483643941.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
12416589

>>12416580
>its the same to read it on japanese than read it on english
>>12416575
I bet you retard can't even into old english lmao

>> No.12416608

>>12416589
meh, old english works are overrated.

>> No.12416621
File: 187 KB, 800x1249, 5a8e60fa9172b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
12416621

I am, just read the 44th book. It is powerfully beautiful and the author has a true understanding of aesthethics, also a bildungsroman itself.
I warn you, many chapters tend to dilate the action a lot, it's melodramatic technique, some are excessively long and descriptive for what I'm used to but still worth it: the trip becomes hallucinogenic, like a dream.

>> No.12416623

>>12416589
ic canne rædan

>> No.12416630

>>12416589
>read on
It's read in you fucking mitwit. You can't even speak English

>> No.12416637

>>12416589
>it's the same to read it in modern japanese as it was classical
オイ、うるせえ。アニメを張り続けば、自分を殺せ。アニメゴミ

>> No.12416670

>>12416630
I’ve been reading manga for over a decade and watching anime since I was nine, tell me again how I don’t know Japanese culture lmao

>> No.12416706
File: 26 KB, 367x500, 1523096145702.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
12416706

>>12416670

>> No.12416788

>>12416670
I’ve been reading French literature and watching French films for over a decade! Please tell me how I don’t know French culture!!

>> No.12416794

>>12416670
(´・ω・`)

>> No.12417031

>>12416557
But im already genji

>> No.12417162

>>12417031
my man fucks

>> No.12417172
File: 2 KB, 125x125, bait.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
12417172

>>12416670

>> No.12418710

>>12416557
I got the everyman's edition. It's surprisingly good for something that old but I want to know how far it strives from the original texts.

>> No.12418726

How are Tyler and Washburn?

>> No.12419679

Anyone got this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Genji-Visual-Companion/dp/0691172684/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1547660740&sr=8-3&keywords=tale+of+genji