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1814698 No.1814698 [Reply] [Original]

I'm going to make a thread about a book. Here it is.

The book is Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong.
Now, I doubt if anyone knows the answer to this question, but is the translation by Goldblatt just bad or is Rong simply a shitty author? He's well known here and the book won the Man Asian literary prize (honestly I don't know what that entails, exactly) but thus far it's horrible. I wanna give it a chance because the only Chinese lit I've ever read is the obligatory Art of War/ Analects, but if there's not a superior translation I'm moving on to some effing Chabon.

>> No.1814714
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1814714

>complains about bad writing
>reads Chabon

>> No.1814725

>>1814714
>>1814714
ur ttly right.

>> No.1814778

w00fums what Chabon are you gonna read if the /lit/ braintrust fails to illuminate this dude for you

>> No.1814802

>>1814725

don't feel bad

like just today i resolved to not make any more jokes about your vagina.

it's probably a very nice vagina with completely proportional labia that doesn't look gross at all. i don't know, i've never seen it.

>> No.1814837

I always thought "Man Booker" was some guy's name

The Man Asian Prize sounds like something Fabulous would furtively access from behind a proxy while his mom and stepdad were fast asleep

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1814846

>>1814802
>he thinks I'm a girl
kid u gotta "lurk moar"

>>1814778
Yiddish Popo. I've only read a couple of his before and I can't say I love his work, but I like it. I kinda feel like I might like Chabon himself more than his actual writing but anyway I think he tells a good story.

>> No.1814848

You shouldn't read translations of Chinese texts. All prose and meaning is lost.

>> No.1814858

>>1814848
Settled. I'm only using this book to kill wasps and horseflies from this day on. Thank you. You've freed me.

>> No.1814875

>>1814846
I have that kicking around somewhere, I haven't gotten to it yet but if you make a thread about Your Thoughts on it I'll probably try to save it from page 15. I loved Kavalier and Clay because I was a pants-shitting sad comic book nerd as a kid but beyond that I def know what you mean about liking the guy more than his work.

>> No.1814943

>>1814848
:(

I always did feel like I was treading water in Asian comp lot classes