/lit/ - Literature

>>17084203
Her Proust translation is also great. Sadly she only did the first volume

umm I don't think so anon

>>17084242
>>17084252
These aren't reviews for Lydia Davis's translation, faggot.

>>17084282
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madame-Bovary-Penguin-Classics-Editions/dp/014310649X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=lydia+davis+bovary&qid=1608574391&s=books&sr=1-2

>>17084292
apparently there is problem with the kindle version

>>17084203
>-te
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>>17084203
>transla–
Did you seriously just use a minus sign instead of an em dash?

>>17084203
Mira Ginsburg was also a great translator.

>>17085489
Huh, guess I need to start reading Translator's Notes when they are included, especially before buying when I browse in person at a used bookstore.

>>17084203
You're pathetic. You could've picked Eleanor Marx's translation if you wanted to carry the point (a translation so surpassing in its greatness that Paul De Man, one of the great literary theorists, a native Francophone fluent in English, chose only to modestly revise when asked to edit a new edition of Madame Bovary.) But you're a retard. See, we don't have to disagree on identity politics, we can instead politely disagree on the pisspoor manner morons like you usually go about constructing your hobbyhorses.

>>17084634
Ah, a fellow em dash enthusiast — based.

>>17085489
Imagine deforming the original work to fit with your ideology. Barthes should have been aborted so that pseuds like this wouldn't have existed.

>>17085928
>putting an em dash between two spaces

>>17085948
How do you do it?
> Like— this?
That's just cringe and wrong.

>>17086675
With zero spaces at all, of course.
If you insist on using spaces, the dash is supposed to be an en dash, not an em dash.

>>17086820
I don't know‒this doesn't look so good.
Might have to make a punctuation thread, probably not /lit/ enough though.

>>17086855
>>17086820
My bad—I mean't this doesn't look so good.

>>17084203
You didn’t finish your sentence.