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12-02-2018, 09:47 PM | #31 | |
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Bookdepository will sell me the Italian audiobook on CD for the same price Kobo charges for the ebook in the US. Which is great because I want to try reading along in Italian. It will be tough, but a great way to sharpen my Italian. And I do love the way cognates can give a different flavour, like this phrase from the synopsis: "il romanzo offre un'immagine del clima di disincanto e di speranze deluse che seguì l'unificazione nazionale" - my speranze of finding a cheap copy in English were very deluse. |
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12-03-2018, 12:44 AM | #32 |
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I will second Maria Duenas. I have been wanting to read something by her. I have one of her other books, The Heart Has Its Reasons, but haven’t gotten around to reading if yet!
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12-03-2018, 07:09 AM | #33 | |
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Buss is a good example of what I'm talking about, in a contrapositive manner. While The Three Musketeers had its detractors when we read it a few months ago, all seemed to agree that a couple of the recent translations were far superior to the earlier ones, even the ones that were contemporaneous. One of my hard and fast rules with older works going back to the classics is to eschew the public domain translation for something modern. Older translations seem inevitably fusty when modern ones delight. |
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12-03-2018, 07:25 AM | #34 | |
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"I don't read translations any more, so I can't help you with those particular ones (when I read it in English, I used Dunnigan's, which is fine), but I'll give you the same advice I give everyone who asks about translations: read a few pages of each one you're considering and choose the one you most enjoy reading. It's like wine -- you're not going to find a really lousy one these days, so what's important is that it's to your taste. Each is going to have minor errors and odd stylistic choices, but so what? You want to have the best reading experience possible, so choose the one that will give you that. " With that in mind, After much reading online about the main contenders, I decided to go with Tolsdtoy's preference, the Maude, despite it being so old |
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12-03-2018, 07:58 AM | #35 |
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I'll nominate Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age
Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...=2I1VD78DI4QVA Available for $1.99 on the day I'm posting. Well worth the price. . . |
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12-03-2018, 09:04 AM | #36 | |
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I wanted to nominate one of Simenon's romans durs that I've yet to read and had a hard time settling on one. I've decided on The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon, (Siân Reynolds, tr.), in part because it's one of his best known and in part because it's cheap in the UK and the prices on these are all over the place in regard both to title and country.
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Kobo UK £2.99 | Kobo AU $10.99 | Kobo CA $11.99 | Kobo US $9.99 | Audible US 251 pp. |
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12-03-2018, 12:26 PM | #37 |
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I will second The Cyberiad. I was thinking about nominating a Lem and this has much better availability.
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12-03-2018, 06:19 PM | #38 | |
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Since this was my theme and I was definitely aiming for non-anglocentric authors, I will nominate Kitchen by the Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto. From the summary
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I can't resist noting that the six nominations in translation were each written in a different language than the others.
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12-04-2018, 07:03 AM | #43 |
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I shall use my last vote to third Alone in Berlin/Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada.
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12-04-2018, 08:08 AM | #44 |
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I was checking my OverDrive libraries for this and one has it. In Spanish! Surely that would count for a twofer? Not for me, alas. Minor rant: The book cover had the author's name and Kitchen. But when I tried to check it out, I got a warning telling me the book was in Spanish and asking if I still wanted it, which was helpful. But why isn't it called La Cocina?
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12-04-2018, 08:43 AM | #45 |
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