/lit/ - Literature

I guess it’s that the same old conflicts of the book are still ongoing (at least they flare up from time to time. Russia’s too busy playing fuck around in the Ukraine to bother the Chechens)

is this the Wordsworth press tactic where they youtube thumbnail covers?

>>21515034
Modern Library paperbacks are something else. Yes, it's real.

>>21515038
odd considering Modern Library editions are often assigned in universities, and come with uni friendly notes.

>>21515005
He is a Chechen soldier from the first or second Chechen war, the book is about Chechens fighting against Russians. I don't see why it's so important.

Could be worse, it could be Wordsworth tier....

>>21515005
Modern Library is the shittiest imprint ever.
Their fuzzy typeface is pure eye cancer

>>21516636
God I love Wordsworth.

picked this great cover up the other day
amusingly it turns out the cover is actually extremely relevant

>>21516786
This cover baffled me exceedingly for a few moments. I thought the dog’s gravestone was the cover of a square looking book for a good second and was wondering why anyone on /lit/ would read a book with such a saccharine title like “Princess Peaches: We All Love You”. If it had a title and cover like that Ulysses would have failed utterly no matter its merits. Cover and title placement on that book is still awful

>>21515038
This cover is kino and you know it

>>21515005
>>21515038
both of these covers are fucking great. forces you to think about the characters as if they were full, flesh and blood people who you could actually meet irl, and not historical curiosities

>>21517783
I see historical people as full, flesh and blood people. wtf is wrong with u?

>>21517783
Contrarianism is the /lit/ attitude, I suppose.

>>21517791
He has a very small imagination. He has to be shown explicitly what characters look like.

Is this translation acceptable?

>>21518329
McDuff? Yea, he's good.

>>21515005
Here, faggot-kun, have some nice soundtrack for the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzVJ-QMw7k0

>>21515005
To state the link between the murad and his people with the chechens, the continuity of the struggle between west and east in the Russian context. To capture the soul of the warrior chaste, almost in a scientific racial way

>>21518678
thnx

>>21518678
This is probably better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc5U0_AzoSE&ab_channel=MagaLezgin

Behold!

>>21520530
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAH

>>21517783
Seconding this. Especially for "A Hero of Our Time", the cover really captures something both subtle and central to the book.

>>21520530
christ, all these hackett editions of classical texts have the worst covers

>>21520530
I like this cover. It's quite striking.

>>21520530
Anglos are such a fucking cancer

>>21521024
It IS an English translation

>>21521024
Those are American troops during D-day, I think.

>>21520530
I like it. His translation sounds more like Hemingway than Homer but it’s a nice cover, reminds you that the story is perennial instead of something of simply historical interest

>>21515005
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT HAS TO BE A CLASSIC PAINTING OR SOME ABSTRACT SHAPE NOOOOOOOO

>>21521065
The themes are perennial but making parallels between Homer's epics and ww2 is pretty retarded. If anything the Hackett covers alienate the reader from the context of the story. The Odyssey cover is even worse. Pure anglo insanity.

>>21521065
>perennial
All the retards I've read on /lit/ use this word. Funny.

>>21521081
>IT HAS TO BE A CLASSIC PAINTING
Yes.

>>21521141
The scene is not meant to suggest the Trojan War parallels WWII but to invoke the scene of a beachhead comprised of every nation

>>21521153
you do not read, you just want other people to think you're well-read

>>21521542
I read a lot and rarely leave the house, I don't ever read in public. I just don't want cringe modern covers in classic works.

>>21515005
Crime & Punishment from Wordsworth always makes me giggle

>>21515038
he's pointing at us

>>21517783
You're not wrong but them being actual pictures is off-putting and make them look cheap, like Sandra Brown romance novels. Had these been stylized into some paintings or at least had the faces more faded would've been more interesting.

>>21515005
This is a good book cover and captures the spirit of the text

>>21521064
Americans might be anglo-americans I think

>>21520530
Many such cases all pretty good and justified and better than some old vase that conveys no horror or terror

>>21515005
Hadji Murad was a proto-Kadyrovite that should've been skinned alive and buried in pig fat. Tolstoy was a Russian imperialist promoting the same mishmash of socialism and orthodox reaction as Putin.

>>21520530
Absolute kino.

>>21515005

>>21515005
This is unironically the most kino cover decision for that particular story precisely because that same conflict that Hadji Murad is engaged in still exists.

>>21523791
>LE "WAR. WAR NEVER CHANGES"

>>21515038
This cover is amazing

>>21523528
> Tolstoy was a Russian imperialist
> Hadji Murat
AI answer.