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17393546 No.17393546 [Reply] [Original]

>If you say "I love Tolstoy!" And I ask "since when could you speak Russian?" to which you reply "oh I don't, I read a translation!" then no, you do not love Tolstoy you love a book by a different author that was was inspired by Tolstoy. Poetry does not translate and books are extended poems. Furthermore there is no need in the first place to read English translations of fiction when English itself has an endless trove of original masterpieces

>> No.17394059

>>17393546
Shakespeare himself read translations. If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for me.

>> No.17394100

>>17393546
stupid and gay, by this logic everything could be categorized as an impure bastardization of something else more legitimate. Chasing the dragon of purity becomes a discursive circle jerk and in your desire to gatekeep authenticity, you just erect false meaning on top of a bunch of books.

>> No.17394106

>>17394059
He just read them to find plots, his literary genius was all his own.

>> No.17394120

>>17393546
Life is too short. Fuck you.

>> No.17394371

>>17394059
Shakespeare was a brainlet

>> No.17394443

>>17393546
I bet people try to beat you to death at parties

>> No.17394458

>>17394100
/thread

>> No.17394474

>>17393546
The real cope is pretending prose can be compared with poetry

>> No.17394544
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>>17393546
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