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12559629 No.12559629 [Reply] [Original]

I would like to start reading Dostoevsky but I constantly see arguments over the proper translation The Brothers Karamazov. What do you suggest /lit/? It seems like a war between Pevear and whoever Penguin uses.

>> No.12559917

>>12559629
Get the P/V translation. Unlike the other ones they actually use the “everything is permitted” phrase.

>> No.12559935

>>12559629
Honestly, just read whatever. It won't matter a whole lot desu.

>> No.12559978

>>12559629
Garnett

>> No.12559979

Avsey
Oxford virtually always has the best translations (see David Luke's Faust, Rosamund Bartlett's Anna Karenina, Louis and Alymer Maude's War and Peace etc)

>> No.12560297

>>12559978
False

>> No.12560359

>>12559629
The best translator of Dostoevsky is David McDuff, he’s been really highly braided for his translations of C&P and Demons, and I read his TBK as well. I read the P&V translation when it first came out and really didn’t enjoy it. In English speaking countries, Garnett is the translator that historically has been read the most, her first sentence of Anna Karenina is basically the definitive English version, but in reality while she is not bad, she’s not as stringent about staying close to the original.

Read McDuff

>> No.12560368

>>12559629
TBK is worth reading more than once, pick whatever and do a different transla

>> No.12560373

>>12559629
TBK is worth reading more than once, pick whatever and then try a different translation on the rereads

>> No.12560387

>not just learning russian
I don't understand you people

>> No.12560527

you learned enough russian to read books and to go up to that russian family you saw on a cruise ship and they took turns spitting on you

>> No.12560813

Why are you starting with TBK? Way over your head. Crime and Punishment and some short stories is a better intro. TBK should be your last, even after demons, just for the sheer length and scope.