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SpaceCadet
Quiet Reader
Ouch! Basically all (but one) of 'my bottoms' are a total mess.
SpaceCadet
Quiet Reader
SpaceCadet
Quiet Reader
SpaceCadet
Quiet Reader
I found that book a few years back at some book fair. I just could not resist the 'old time' flavor of it. I think it dates back to the 1950's or something like that.
Here's the entry for 'Books': to preserve from mildew. A few drops of strong perfumed oil sprinkled in the bookcase will preserve books from damp and mildew.
Here's the entry for 'Books': to preserve from mildew. A few drops of strong perfumed oil sprinkled in the bookcase will preserve books from damp and mildew.
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Verkhovensky
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Sentimental Education!
Which is also one of my favourite books ever!
Leseratte
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A very messy botton shelf:
8th book :Seeing (Portuguese: José Saramago. Ensaio sobre a Lucidez)-new, still unread
5th book- Egon Mathiesen and Alf Raddatz .Sort of:The cat with the blue eyes ( A piece of childhood I couldn´t get read of)
8th book :Seeing (Portuguese: José Saramago. Ensaio sobre a Lucidez)-new, still unread
5th book- Egon Mathiesen and Alf Raddatz .Sort of:The cat with the blue eyes ( A piece of childhood I couldn´t get read of)
Stevie B
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Until I pulled this copy of Mikhail Saltykov's The Golovlyov Family from my bookshelf, I hadn't looked at the cover in years and I had forgotten about its enjoyably creepy cover art. I read the novel on my own during my college years - not this copy, but a 1961 Signet paperback translated by the questionably named Andrew MacAndrew. More recently, New York Review Books put the book back into print with a newer translation by Natalie Duddington (another unfortunate name as she was likely nicknamed "Dud"). Could be time for a reread.
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Ben Jackson
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare, a monumental achievement in drama and world literature.
Leseratte
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I don´t know the book but loved the cover.
Stevie B
Current Member
Here's an interesting article on the author and his writing that was published earlier this year:
Saltykov-Shchedrin: Satirist, wordsmith and legal terrorist
This skilled satirist is relatively unknown in the West, but he made huge contributions to Russian language, literature and social development.
tiganeasca
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Curiously enough, I used to have two different versions of that particular book, the Duddington translation and the Cioran translation whose cover StevieB posted. I hadn't read either one for a long time and finally decided there was little point to having two separate translations and so I sat down one day and spent some time comparing them. While I cannot speak to which one is more "accurate" (whatever that might mean), I did decide that the Cioran translation was much "smoother" and easier to read. Something about the Duddington was...clunky. (Do I risk saying that it was a "dud"?) So I gave away the Duddington. For what it may also be worth, her translation was made in the mid-1950s and his in the late 1970s, though I suspect the difference in fluidity has less to do with when the translation was made than with the translators' themselves.Here's an interesting article on the author and his writing that was published earlier this year:
Saltykov-Shchedrin: Satirist, wordsmith and legal terrorist
This skilled satirist is relatively unknown in the West, but he made huge contributions to Russian language, literature and social development.www.rbth.com
tiganeasca
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I forgot to mention which is the eighth book from the left on the bottom shelf: War and Peace. Which, I must confess, I am actually considering re-reading. I remember enjoying my version (the Maude translation) but I will confess that the sheer size remains offputting, even though I've read it once already.
Stevie B
Current Member
Thanks for the heads up on the translations. I incorrectly assumed the Duddington translation was the newest since it was the one NYRB used. Guess I can go ahead and read the copy I already own.
Leseratte
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Thanks. Looked him up, he is hopefully public domain.Here's an interesting article on the author and his writing that was published earlier this year:
Saltykov-Shchedrin: Satirist, wordsmith and legal terrorist
This skilled satirist is relatively unknown in the West, but he made huge contributions to Russian language, literature and social development.
Thanks for the article. Here it is, not the most recent translation though:
A Family of Noblemen by Mikhail Saltykov
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44237
tiganeasca
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HA! Been there, tried that. I will stick to the translations thank you. (It's a miracle that Russian doesn't decline punctuation marks!)
Liam
Administrator
^True, everything declines and inflects, and then there are exceptions to the rule, and then there are exceptions to the exception: good luck mastering all of that!!! ?
I'm lucky that I learned Russian early enough (because of my mother); but in terms of literature, let me just say, reading Marina Tsvetaeva in the original is like a kick to the head. You will never be the same again. I consider myself lucky that I happen to know and easily read and understand this language, the rewards are truly immense!
I'm lucky that I learned Russian early enough (because of my mother); but in terms of literature, let me just say, reading Marina Tsvetaeva in the original is like a kick to the head. You will never be the same again. I consider myself lucky that I happen to know and easily read and understand this language, the rewards are truly immense!
redhead
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You could even say it… declines to do so
tiganeasca
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Did someone lose a "hadz"?