/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11076979]

>russian novel
>chapter dedicated to character arguing with his landlord
this always happens

[Anonymous No.11077172]

suck on it bby gurrrrrl

[Anonymous No.11077187]

>Australian novel
>It's about how bad whites are

[Anonymous No.11077199]

>>11077187
>Australian novel
Also, white Australians have a responsibility to disparage themselves for their disgusting treatment of the First People.

[Anonymous No.11077202]

>>11076979

Name one time.

[Anonymous No.11077204]

>southern gothic novel
>every character is a retarded protestant

[Anonymous No.11077218]

>>11077199
Canadian detected

[Anonymous No.11077229]

>>11077199
>First People
Ignorance. There were hundreds of peoples.

[Anonymous No.11077317]

>>11077187
>Australian novel
>some ABC filtered brave and powerful depiction of lower class or ethnic life in Australia

[Anonymous No.11077577]

>>11077202
Oblomov

[Anonymous No.11077590]

>>11076979

I don't think that happens in Anna Karenina, where instead it's a landlord wrangling his peasants.

But, for Dostoevsky, I think you're close to right. And the post has enough truth to it that it made me laugh.

[Anonymous No.11077597]

>>11077317
>Middle class white suburban mums writing about aboriginal life in the 1930s

[Anonymous No.11077605]

>>11077202
crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.11077626]

>>11077202
Literally a third of the Master and Margarita is all the shenanigans about the Moscow housing shortage when they steal Berlioz's apartment

[Anonymous No.11077697]

>Russian novel
>Each character has 6 different names theyre referred to interchangeably and they all sound vaguely similar to other characters names

[Anonymous No.11077721]

>Russian novel
>character with consumption
>consumptive always talks and acts theatrically

[Anonymous No.11077726]

>>11077626
is it still worth reading?

[Anonymous No.11077767]

>>11077726
Yes

[Anonymous No.11077846]

>>11077726
Absolutely, the apartment shenanigans are hilarious. The devil and his pals use people's greed and pride to fuck them over constantly.

[Anonymous No.11077899]

>russian novel
>some of the characters are fabulously wealthy potentates, others are starving friendless paupers
>they're all titled prince or count regardless

[Anonymous No.11078039]

>brazilian literature
>entire novel is about someone who is either enormously rich and has a shit life or someone who is either enormously poor and has a shit life, but is poor so God likes him even tho he may be a animalistic criminal; mixed with a little bit of social commentary by pretencious authors who usualy are the enormously rich elite of said country and like to larp as revolutionaries and defenders of the poor

Every single time.

[Anonymous No.11078466]

>>11077697
lol is this a problem foreigners have?

[Anonymous No.11078491]

>>11078466
As somebody that only speaks english and some french, russian patronymics take some getting used to, and diminutive nicknames especially are hard because they don't often sound too similar to the real name. Names like "Alyosha" don't come off as natural nicknames to anglo ears. After I read a few novels it stopped bothering me.

[Anonymous No.11078591]

>>11078491
Today I learned. I always thought it's the Westerners who seem to have a billion names. First name, middle name, middle name #2, "Official Nickname", last name, last name #2, hell I don't know what else.

I think Russian names are easier because our nicknames aren't made up, they come from the name. If you're named Alexander, then you're also named Sasha. People who learn of you only as Sasha will reconstruct your official name as Alexander if the occasion calls for it.

[Anonymous No.11078608]

>>11077204
>implying all protestants aren't retards

[Anonymous No.11078609]

>>11078591

How does Alexander shorten to Sasha? Not even an anglo, but that makes no sense to me.

[Anonymous No.11078617]

>>11078591
westerners only have one name, middle name is seldom ever used at all and the last name is completely formal or used to tease someone. you have one name, your first name. We call important media figures by their last name and people who hate their first name or are being teased by friends have their middle name being used. I have a friend whose middle name is his first name but this is rare

[Anonymous No.11078622]

>>11078609
Through "Aleksasha". -asha (-osha, -esha) is a productive suffix even now.

[Anonymous No.11078629]

>>11078617
That sounds like a waste... I suppose it's useful for registers though.

[Anonymous No.11078650]

>>11078591
Westerners will typically only have first, middle, last. In daily conversation you'll refer to most people by their first name only, unless you're in an environment like the military, where they use last names.
Spaniards started the trend of multiple last names and carried it over to all latinos. They tack on the last names of their mother and possibly even more family members to the point that their "full" name might be like seven words long. It's exclusively a latino thing, though, and it seems just as weird to us as it does to you.
Nicknames are just varied culturally, I don't think they'll ever seem natural when you first here them. Most of our nicknames are still derived from the first name (my name is Michael, some people call me Mike, the equivalent of Mikhail and Misha) or last name (my friend's last name is Gibson, so we sometimes call him Gibby).

[Anonymous No.11079099]

>>11077899
nice one

[Anonymous No.11079647]

>>11076979
fuck

[Anonymous No.11079803]

>Russian novel
>the term "arms akimbo" is mentioned at least twenty times
Is this just a translator quirk or something? It's incredibly annoying

[Anonymous No.11079832]

>>11077204
>>11078608
"—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?

—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?"

[Anonymous No.11079849]

>Russian novel
>every time a character is introduced, their landlord is also introduced

[Anonymous No.11079856]

>>11078591
I’ve literally never met someone with two middle names or two last names. That’s more of a Spanish thing. We have first, middle and last.

[Anonymous No.11079870]

>German nove-
oh wait

[Anonymous No.11080376]

>>11079803
I speak Russian and genuinely don't know what phrase they are translating as that. Can you give an example?

[Anonymous No.11080427]

>>11080376
"Pyки в бoки" чтo ли. Bpoдe бы нe пoхoжe нa "pyки пo швaм".

[Anonymous No.11080587]

>>11080427
they seem to express different emotions though even if the position is the same. Why would you not just say hands on hips, which doesn't have such connotations?
>pic related, akimbo means irritation?