Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.19679329]

Which translation should I read? Does it matter? Also why is it so hard to find good copies of books, bros? The paperbacks look like shit (and are shit because they're paperbacks). I would get the everyman's library hardcovers, but apparently they're garbage prints

[Anonymous No.19679816]

I read Garnett's translation of C&P and Karamazov and thought they were good.

[Anonymous No.19679998]

>>19679329
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

[Anonymous No.19680002]

Is the right translation 'Demons' or 'Devils' though?

[Anonymous No.19680004]

>>19679816
based
>>19679998
cringe

[Anonymous No.19680009]

>>19679329
>I would get the everyman's library hardcovers, but apparently they're garbage prints
And most importantly they are garbage translations.

[Anonymous No.19680015]

>>19679329

[Anonymous No.19680027]

>>19680015
Garnett is clearly the best desu

[Anonymous No.19680029]

>>19680015
Garnett for me, too.

[Anonymous No.19680039]

>>19680027
>>19680029
>tfw I’m nearly finished with the mcduff

[Anonymous No.19680045]

>>19680039
He's also pretty good. As long as it's not P&V, you're good to go.

[Anonymous No.19680383]

>>19679329
The one i wrote in my diary desu

[Anonymous No.19680947]

>>19680004
>>19680009
>>19680027
>>19680029
Wew lads thanks for the warnings agaisbt the shitvear and shitsky. I'll look for garnet translation prints, I just hope I can find some good looking copies

>>19680015
Ty ty anon may you be blessed with wealth and tendies ty ty

>>19680002
Idk thats why I'm asking you

[Anonymous No.19680968]

What’s with contrarians shilling Garnett for Dostoyevsky lately? Fucking retards. Literally the worst translator of Dostoyevsky. I guess you guys are smarter and more refined than everyone else since you like the shitty old outdated translation where the translator wasn’t even fluent

[Anonymous No.19680979]

>>19680968
>I guess you guys are smarter and more refined than everyone else
Yes

[Anonymous No.19680996]

>>19679329
serious question how many years will it take me to learn russian from scrath and be able to read dosto?? my language (romanian) vocabulary fond is like 20% slavic . russian classics are probably my favorite genre of books and I ve read a shit ton

[Anonymous No.19680998]

>>19680968
Contrarian implies there's a consensus. There isn't.

[Anonymous No.19681019]

>>19680968
Idk, gaylord, I just read the opening paragraphs from >>19680015 and found Garnettes the most pleasnt to read

[Anonymous No.19681041]

>>19680968
/lit/ is a Garnett board. You can go back to r*ddit to shill your marketing-blown clunky shitty translation known as P&V.

[Anonymous No.19681083]

Dostoyevsky translations threads are the worst thing on lit. Bunch of anons who don’t know Russian, and have only read one translation, give their opinion like they have any idea what they are talking about

[Anonymous No.19681093]

>>19681041
>Petersburger
Petersburger
>Petersburger
Petersburger
>Petersburger
Petersburger

>>19681083
Enlighten us, then, oh anonkun, who has read all of them and can give a more worthy opinion

[Anonymous No.19681096]

>>19679329
Whatever translation Gutenberg carries.

[Anonymous No.19681108]

>>19680015
can some make a dark version of this? I have a headache.

[Anonymous No.19681112]

>>19681093
>Petersburger
Huh?

[Anonymous No.19681133]

>>19681112
It's from the P&V translation. I already didn't like it, then I got to that and I decided fully that it was cringe

[Anonymous No.19681141]

>>19681093
>Enlighten us

That’s just it, there’s no enlightening. You all are niggers for arguing over this shit and choosing a hill to die on for a specific translation. At least I can say I’ve read 7 different translations of different Dostoyevsky books and they are all more or less the same. I think Wilks and Garnett are trash though.

[Anonymous No.19681148]

>>19681141
>P&V shill is angry because /lit/chads prefer Garnett
Ah so this is where the whine and seethe are coming from. Should've said it earlier.

[Anonymous No.19681176]

>>19681148
Reread. Where did I promote P&V? You realize Garnett knew barely passable Russian and omitted large sections? P&V get shit on for being “confusing”, but I’m not convinced anons actually read because Garnett completely butchered the ending especially. Stilted, grammatically incorrect, and emotionally impotent. I’m convinced some anon started trolling with the Garnett recommendations and many took the bait

[Anonymous No.19681213]

hi i've seen reading lists
where do i put "the eternal husband", it was recommended as a novella on the /lit/ wiki

[Anonymous No.19682429]

Bump

[Anonymous No.19682438]

>>19680015
Penis and Vagina will always be my favorite regardless of whether or not garnett is better objectively

[Anonymous No.19682464]

>>19682438
t. Peterburger