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Anonymous Mon May 26 09:48:52 2014 No.4935921 [DELETED]

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ITT:

>Beautiful book covers
X
>Ugly book covers

I start with pic related (ugly cover): a translation of Keats poetry to Portuguese (I’m Brazilian), a bilingual edition. The book is actually very well documented and the translation is faithful to the original (they didn’t try to preserve rhyme or metrics, but translated the verses precisely as they are).

The cover, however, is hideous: look at those fucking colors (that moss green, ancient-lichen green, the red-colored Keats), and the image of the poet is not adequately inserted in the yellow square.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 09:52:37 2014 No.4935927 File: 29 KB, 211x300, the sun also rises.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This one.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:02:49 2014 No.4935939 File: 27 KB, 333x420, 41oRmtGvt2L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Love this cover

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:06:04 2014 No.4935947 File: 401 KB, 1139x1783, 81owQdCMMUL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4935921 Never read the book, but the cover is beautiful.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:08:37 2014 No.4935952 >>4935947 I just ordered this version online.

Anonymous Mon May 26 10:09:46 2014 No.4935956
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>>4935949

Yes.

Thinking on posting some Cosac&Naify book covers: they are almost all wonderful. My dream is to be published someday by them.

One example: Oblomov book cover in their edition.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:16:38 2014 No.4935967 File: 1.14 MB, 1000x1261, pockets-LPM.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4935921 From the Brazilian editions, I like L&PM. >pic related

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:19:04 2014 No.4935973 >>4935967 They are great: I have several of them. Are you from Rio Grande do Sul?

Anonymous Mon May 26 10:19:47 2014 No.4935974
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>>4935956
Cosac just rules when it comes to editorial quality. Just look at this, it looks beautiful with AND without the slipcover

(also, have that Oblomov, and will probably get that Virgina Woolf book in the same collection just for the beauty of it)

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>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:20:50 2014 No.4935980 >>4935973 Paraíba.

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>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:22:48 2014 No.4935986 File: 45 KB, 391x620, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4935978

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>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:23:59 2014 No.4935992 >>4935980 I asked because L&PM is from Porto Alegre, and they sell their products in every book store, and even in supermarkets. They print lots of volumes.

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Anonymous Mon May 26 10:25:59 2014 No.4936002
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>>4935967
LP&M just sucks cover-wise, but they're just so cheap and the translations are usually good enough, I just can't avoid getting them.

Also, considering our main pocket books publishers, LP&M is waaaaaaaay better than BestBooks and Martin fucking Claret (just look at this image, tell me you'd buy these fucking things if you could avoid).

Thankfully, Penguin is showing some quality stuff so far, I really hope they expand their catalog soon

>>4935992
That works nationwide, I'm from a small city near Belo Horizonte and can actually buy LP&M stuff from the newsstand in the corner

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:26:37 2014 No.4936005 >>4935993 You know, that is one of the classic covers that I find hideous. It doesn’t have anything to do with the book: it seems almost like the cover of a cheap cyber-punk novel.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:28:55 2014 No.4936010 File: 11 KB, 127x200, dracula.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4936002 oh god I have that Lovecraft also this fucking Dracula >>4936005 > It doesn’t have anything to do with the book that's wrong tho

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:29:35 2014 No.4936014 >>4936005 Spend some more time with either the cover art or the novel. Probably more than any other cover art it encapsulates the story within.

Anonymous Mon May 26 10:30:10 2014 No.4936018

>>4936002

> Also, considering our main pocket books publishers, LP&M is waaaaaaaay better than BestBooks and Martin fucking Claret (just look at this image, tell me you'd buy these fucking things if you could avoid).

HAHAHA
I've been trying to post this image for 10 min, and getting an error message.
Was about to say the exact same thing of Martin Claret.

Those page numbers in the middle of the text just piss me off.

Anonymous Mon May 26 10:31:46 2014 No.4936023

>>4936010
>that's wrong tho
>>4936010
>Spend some more time with either the cover art or the novel. Probably more than any other cover art it encapsulates the story within.

Sorry for that. I read the book a long time ago. Guess is time to come back to it.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:32:25 2014 No.4936027 >>4935992 Here in Paraíba they sell a lot of them as well. Probably not as much as down there, but I believe it's manly because here "we" don't read.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:33:46 2014 No.4936034 >>4936005 > It doesn’t have anything to do with the book: Did you read the book, mate? >>4936002 How many Brazilians are here on /lit/ today?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 10:39:12 2014 No.4936061 >>4936027 Down here "we" also dont read m8. It's all the same thing.

Anonymous Mon May 26 10:41:48 2014 No.4936074

>>4936034
For some reason, there is always a fair number of brazilians on /lit/

>>4936027
Countrywise, people don't read.
I know literature / language students (one of them doing her master's degree) who never heard of Pynchon, Perec or Gaddis, for Christ's skae

Anonymous Mon May 26 10:50:15 2014 No.4936100

>>4936074
There are a lot of brbrhues on the internet in general. Most english professors are dryed out pseudo-dykes assigned the most boring modernist trash imaginable so I'm not surprised the degree mills are churning out people ignorant of books like Pynchon's filled with cocks and subtle mysogony and racism.

Anonymous Mon May 26 10:55:56 2014 No.4936122

>>4936027
>>4936034
>>4936061
>>4936074

What are your Top 5 favourite publishers? I was just thinking about it the other day, and I'd go, in no particular order with:

Martins (specially the "Dialéticas" collection)
Cosac & Naify
Companhia das Letras (I guess 80% of the books I've bought last year were theirs)
Aleph
Perspectivas

Also, Conrad has a eternal place within my heart, I've gotten into so much great stuff thanks to them

>>4936100
I know there's a bunch of brbrhues on the internet as a whole, but as far as 4chan goes, I always see way more BRs on /lit/ than /co/ or /mu/ (don't really go to other boards, except the casual /x/ and /pol/ whenever I feel like shitposting)

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 11:01:11 2014 No.4936135 >>4936122 No Editora 34? They are one of my favorites.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 11:06:52 2014 No.4936154 >>4936135 This. Amazing translations.

Anonymous Mon May 26 11:18:28 2014 No.4936200
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>>4936074
>>4936061

Really? I know that Brazil as any third world country isn't much a reading country, but I thought up here (northeast) it would be worst.

>>4936122
>>4936135

I never thought about my favorite publishers. I know that I hate Martin Claret.

Concerning which ones I prefer, without any order:
> Saraiva de Bolso (Nova Fronteira)
> Companhia das Letras
> L&PM (why not, eh?)
> Abril Clássicos
> Hedra

I'm not sure if "Abril Clássicos" still exists, I've "inherited" many of their books from my father, and they are top notch.
I love their covers, and the fact that they come with built in ribbon bookmark.
>pic related

About Editora 34: I really like their cover arts and illustrations, I'm jut not a big fan of their prices. Bought The Double, by Dostoevsky, for R$ 34,00.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 11:22:05 2014 No.4936215 >>4936200 I may be wrong, but I heard Abril Clássicos usually has terrible translations, and, just like Martin Claret, "stole" a lot of translantions. But again, I'm not sure. I have Os moedeiros falsos by them and I have no regrets of reading it.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 11:24:38 2014 No.4936231 >>4936215 My Abril Clássicos are all very old translations (40 year old stuff) and they seem pretty decent.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 26 15:26:42 2014 No.4937026 bump

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