Brothers K: is this an acceptable translation?

[Anonymous No.15582181]

[Anonymous No.15582334]

>>15582181
>reading a book by a retard
why?

[Anonymous No.15582386]

>>15582334
I agree with him. It's called being zealous, anon. Don't hate it when you ain't it

[Anonymous No.15582408]

>>15582334

Shut up, faggot.

[Anonymous No.15582424]

>>15582386
what denomination?
>>15582181
I only know English, but how well preserved is the prose of Brothers K after the translation?

[Anonymous No.15582511]

>>15582181
>acceptable translation
Read David McDuff or Ignat Avsey.

[Anonymous No.15582538]

>>15582334
Strange as it sounds, the historical accounts in the Gospels might, historically speaking, be demonstrably false and yet belief would lose nothing by this: not, because it concerns 'universal truths of reason'! This message (the Gospels) is seized on by men believingly (i.e. lovingly). That is the certainty characterizing this particular acceptance-as-true, not something else. A believer's relation to these narratives is neither the relation to historical truth (probability), nor yet that to a theory consisting of 'truths of reason'.

[Anonymous No.15582609]

>>15582511
Pretty much this, just stay away from the P&V version

[Anonymous No.15582663]

>>15582181
Hijacking this thread to ask if my Ignat Avsey copy that I bought a few years ago after reading Crime and Punishment but never got around to reading is any good? Also the Crime and Punishment version that I read like 5 years ago when I was 14 was the Constance Garnett Wordsworth Classics version, I don’t remember much apart from the basic plot, is it worth rereading a different translation as I heard the original Garnett translation is trash?

[Anonymous No.15582682]

Idk I read the McAndrew translation and it was very shit

[Anonymous No.15582707]

>>15582609
Why do people hate P&V so much?

[Anonymous No.15582829]

>>15582707
because it’s a part of their contrarian ’old book gud’ mindset

[Anonymous No.15582851]

Heт. B*cтoйд нe кoгдa нe пoймёт нacтoящeгo cмыcлa этoй книги.

[Anonymous No.15583015]

>>15582707
"Hate" might be a little too strong, but the general consensus seems to be that their translations are a bit subpar compared to others such as McDuff, personally I prefer McDuff's translations of The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment to P&V's but I wouldn't call P&V's awful or unreadable just not quite as good.

[Anonymous No.15583172]

>>15582181
Not read McDuff's Dostoevsky translations, but in his other stuff he seems to sacrifice style for literal meaning. So I'm skeptical of people's praise (but perhaps he's just good at Dost). That said, every translation is going to have its flaws so you're just going to have to accept that you're not reading Dostoevsky, but an adaptation.

[Anonymous No.15583183]

>>15582334
Fuck off faggot, you wish you had a soul

[Anonymous No.15583229]

it's midwit tier being obsessed with translations. they all have their pros and cons, who cares. they're all good, it's the english language and it's a 150 year old book. just read it