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1410148 No.1410148 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best translations of Anna Karenina, The Metamorphosis, Notes From Underground, and Thus Spake Zarathustra?

>> No.1410155

The gavagai ones

>> No.1410156

pevear
kauffman
dont read kafka

>> No.1410173

Most'll do.

>> No.1410180

Anyone know the best translation of The Divine Comedy?

>> No.1410186

>>1410155

i don't think people here have read 'word and object' bro

>> No.1410192

>>1410186
Hey, more have here than in the general population.

>>1410155
Also
>implying accuracy is the only standard for "best" translation.

>> No.1410193

Kauffman did the best translation on Nietzsche but unfortunately Thus Spoke Zarathustra is not one of Nietzsche's best books.

>> No.1410198

>>1410186
a few have, unfortunately

>> No.1410208

>>1410180
Doesn't matter, its poetry in a form that cannot be fully replicated in English, who cares which translation you use, it will lose all the character of the original anyway.