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A new translation of Crime and Punishment is soon to be released through Penguin. Will it be good?

>> No.6761648

Looks like a comic book cover

>> No.6761659

not a fan of that cover

>> No.6761690
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>>6761598
i think it's already out, although i haven't read it, and i've never seen it discussed

>>6761648
>>6761659
simply euphorbic

>> No.6761693

>>6761598
>In early July, in exceptional heat, towards evening, a young man left the garret he was renting in S----y Lane, stepped outside, and slowly, as if in two minds, set of towards K----n Bridge.
So fucking terrible.

>> No.6761722

>On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge.
Garnett for comparison.

>> No.6761724

holy shit can people not just translate stuff that hasn't yet been translated rather than doing the ten millionth version of something that everyone's read already

>> No.6761741
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>>6761598
>Will it be good?

>> No.6761744

>At the beginning of July, during an extremely hot spell, towards evening, a young man left the closet he rented from tenants in S---y Lane, walked out to the street, and slowly, as if indecisively, headed for the K---n Bridge.
Pevear and Volokhonsky. Which one /lit/?

>> No.6761750

>>6761693
Was he in heat? Is he a cat?

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>>6761744
>closet
maybe it's just what i'm used to and not even what dosty was going for, but garret is so much more evocative

>> No.6761769

>>6761724
to make money

>> No.6761778

>>6761724
For some reason Americans in particular have a raging hard-on for Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, even more so than most literate Russians.

>> No.6761839

>>6761722
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Garnett translation of this book.

>> No.6761855

>>6761693
why, are there so, many, commas