/lit/ - Literature

This is why you do your own research and read multiple translations

>>15270176
If you read translations you have no right to complain. Either stop being a monolingual *nglo embarassment of the human race, or deal with it.

>>15270194
i can understand doing research to just find the best translation, but reading multiple translations? who the fuck has the time for that?

>>15270176
>when I read I take certain liberties when interpreting the text

>>15270201
Everyone does

>>15270198
haha bro just learn russian over multiple years just to read 4 dostoyevsky books haha

>translator makes extensive chapter endnotes that explain outdated forms of speech, historical context, and literary references

>>15270198
I can read English and my native language Dutch. Guess how many worthwhile authors there are in Dutch? Not many. Spinoza wrote in Latin, after all.
Best thing ive got is that certain German terms that dont have an analogue in English do have one in Dutch (Like Aufhebung or Wissenschaft)

look on the bright side, you are a frogposter, so none of this matters and you should just kill yourself anyway.

>>15270225
Wow, it's almost like literature don't owe it to your lazy angloid ass to be instantly accessible, sucks right?
Also, do you seriously think 4 Dostoevsky novels would make any sense to you without the study of the russian history, Dostoevsky's biography, political views, and the many literary works he was responding to with his novels? Just give up and go back to reading Moby Dik.

>>15270246
>wow, it's almost like

>>15270201
It's so compare and contrast them, not reading a work again from cover-to-cover. It's especially useful for ancient or religious texts because they are often obscure and have multiple interpretations.

>>15270233
>I have to read crappy translations because I can only read Dutch and English, and Dutch authors suck.

What!? Tons of scholars agree that the literary flowering during the Dutch golden age is one of the few rivals to fifth century Athens. Also I understand that most of your 20th century novelists are grossly underrated internationally as well.

And even so you should be able to learn to read at least German with no effort at all.

>>15270176
How is this even possible? Just go on goodreads and compare them. Usually the best translations have someone with autism behind them who wants to bring the original experience.

>>15270294
Kaufmann's translations of Nietzsche are considered really good, but his footnotes always try really hard to make Nietzsche seem like a soft lefty liberal when he was shitting all over it.

>>15270303
What are you talking about? Stirner, Nietzsche, and the postmodernists were extremely liberal. They all supported 'individual expression' over adherence to group identities, which is literally the basis of all the LGBT/Women's rights/racial equality/etc movements.

>book has latin expressions
>they go untranslated

>>15270176
>book is in language x
>has entire dialogue in language y

>>15270608

>>15270176
Let me (((translate))) that for you!

>>15270176

You are quite right anon. The trick is only to read translators you trust.

How do you know whom to trust? Well, you ask me.

>>15270642
>Description is in the literary language that you studied
>Dialogue is in a dialect that you did not
>No dictionaries available

>19th century translation of a French book
>pretty much every other sentence is left untranslated