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Anonymous Sat Nov 5 11:15:04 2016 No.8695403 [Reply] [Original]

Wtf is this shit and how is it comprehensible?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 11:17:13 2016 No.8695408 >>8695403 It's a book

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 11:33:06 2016 No.8695446 >>8695408 yep, can confirm that it appears to be a book

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 11:33:30 2016 No.8695449 >>8695403 It looks weird at a glance, but once you know what he's trying to do it's not difficult to comprehend at all. There's a recent New Yorker interview with the translator that explains it pretty well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 11:36:33 2016 No.8695457 >judging a book of ~1.5k pages by two of them >>8695449 this

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 11:39:06 2016 No.8695466 >>8695403 People call it an incomprehensible untranslatable German Finnegan's Wake but it's not nearly as obfuscatory and is actually enjoyable

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 13:18:08 2016 No.8695716 >>8695449 link>?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 13:22:16 2016 No.8695724 I can't believe how many of you guys fell for this fucking meme

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 13:24:10 2016 No.8695730 File: 455 KB, 1536x2048, 1473720448840.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 13:26:47 2016 No.8695732 >>8695730 Y'havta reaD Joyce's ULYSSES 20=times!

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 13:45:12 2016 No.8695776 >>8695730 holy shit

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 15:24:48 2016 No.8696009 >>8695403 Ze germans have tricked you again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 15:51:37 2016 No.8696086 >>8695730 BILD is a German tabloid, that's all I can gather from it. 2patrishun4me

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 15:52:36 2016 No.8696088 >>8695730 I actually want more.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 16:01:15 2016 No.8696110 >>8695716 http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-great-translator-takes-on-one-final-and-nearly-impossible-project

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 16:11:08 2016 No.8696133 File: 2.44 MB, 4000x2604, bottoms6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8696088 Have some random pages. 1/4

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 16:12:18 2016 No.8696139 File: 2.55 MB, 4000x2847, bottoms7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 2/4

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 16:13:11 2016 No.8696141 The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra looks more interesting.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 16:13:27 2016 No.8696143 File: 2.22 MB, 4000x2658, bottoms8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 3/4

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 16:14:36 2016 No.8696147 File: 2.55 MB, 4000x2811, bottoms9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 4/4

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 17:09:51 2016 No.8696291 >>8696147 >>8696143 >>8696139 >>8696133 This book is not for the living

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 17:18:13 2016 No.8696312 >>8696133 >http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-great-translator-takes-on-one-final-and-nearly-impossible-project >>8696139 >>8696143 >>8696147 >this is good writing

Anonymous Sat Nov 5 17:41:58 2016 No.8696371
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>>8695403

Pro-tip: if it tries to make itself obscure, it's most likely shit.

Remember that sting operation whose name I forget. "Intellectuals" gobbled it up like cum from Jesus, and it was actual nonsense.

It's a game of the emperor's clothes more often than not. A bunch of semi-intelligent adults who want to give themselves extra value by sucking up to what others suck up to.

Absolutely childish. Also why I don't come here anymore.

Just came for the raid.

Faggots.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 17:45:00 2016 No.8696377 This is what happens when you translate a book that relies on bilingual puns to another language and leave out half of the context. It's a mess.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:16:33 2016 No.8696613 >>8696377 It's fun to have to be honest, for the sheer novelty alone.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:25:54 2016 No.8696635 File: 256 KB, 1024x768, Kadsenalbtraum.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8696371 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:30:15 2016 No.8696647 >>8696635 >>8696371 Unfortunately the Sokal Affair was bullshit. Derrida probs put it best when he told Sokal he could have published something worthwhile but instead will be remembered for this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:37:29 2016 No.8696662 >>8696647 Of course it was bs, that's the point.The reason was to show how retardedly unscientific postmodernism and socal studies are.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:43:25 2016 No.8696677 >>8696613 Only 2000 copies were printed, in a few years they'll be worth hundreds.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:46:38 2016 No.8696692 >>8696677 Only 2000? If I knew that I would have gotten 10.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 19:49:16 2016 No.8696698 File: 35 KB, 904x121, 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8696692 If this is to be believed, yes. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-seasons-biggest-novel-has-1-3-million-words-and-outweighs-a-bowling-ball-1474642359

>>	$16,666 crisp Sat Nov 5 20:12:45 2016 No.8696784 >>8696133 would you do us all a solid and repeat this 567 more times >>8696133 >>8696139 >>8696143 >>8696147 or actually just this 142 more times, thanks matey

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 20:16:44 2016 No.8696796 >>86961fw I recognize this scan

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 20:18:01 2016 No.8696800 >>8696133 >mfw I recognize this scan

Anonymous Sat Nov 5 20:38:39 2016 No.8696851

>>8696692
Seems so little considering the amount of press and attention it garnerend, then again the ones who did get it are very vocal about it perhaps giving an illusion of a higher printing volume.

>>8696784
Perhaps if I have time I will rig up my camera properly and do that.

Ꭺnonymous Sat Nov 5 22:19:43 2016 No.8697120

>>8696133
this is excruciating
I wish this fucker would just say what the meme is somewhere and then translate it more directly
i.e. all the italicized words are obscure references to their Latin cognates or some shit
I mean it's not going to be that simple, but good fucking gravy, phonetic writing of English is just abhorrent (unfortunately), and so is plonking down flowery words once per sentence
also
>unmatched parentheses
>weird use of = for no apparent reason
>sizable portions just seem like schizophrenic ranting, so either the writer was fucked up or this cannot be translated at all (or both)

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 00:06:22 2016 No.8697373 >>8695403 Fucking Hipster book. Throw that shit right in the garbage and let it be someone else's problem.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 01:37:03 2016 No.8697607 >>8696133 >Anus Schmidt

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 11:18:55 2016 No.8698743 >>8697373 My trashcan isn't that large.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 11:43:29 2016 No.8698827 >>8698743 for you

>>	Acbn !7CUUUUUUUU Sun Nov 6 18:50:36 2016 No.8700249 >>8695730 looks like my IRC typing when i've had a few too many beers

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 6 20:21:44 2016 No.8700581 >>8697607 > an anus = cookie then ?

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