tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5140627500915158788..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: This nightmare was soon followed by another - Maxim Gorky's My ChildhoodAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-67787800816973379162017-02-10T16:22:02.307-06:002017-02-10T16:22:02.307-06:00Yes, this belongs on a good Russian reading list. ...Yes, this belongs on a good Russian reading list. The whole trilogy, presumably.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-90255507865699417212017-02-10T15:41:44.468-06:002017-02-10T15:41:44.468-06:00Belated props for this post--you make appalling so...Belated props for this post--you make appalling sound highly appealing! I guess it helps, though, that Gorky sounds like he could have stepped right out of the pages of <em>Petersburg</em>. Whatever, I'll have to keep this in mind for when I return to the Russian Literature of Doom. Cool beans!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-25879507712528632482017-02-08T12:47:20.816-06:002017-02-08T12:47:20.816-06:00Yes, in that way I wasn't sorry I was reading ...Yes, in that way I wasn't sorry I was reading it.Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-71971737902930587902017-02-08T09:57:24.173-06:002017-02-08T09:57:24.173-06:00Inflicted by me on you! Or on me by my library. ...Inflicted by me on you! Or on me by my library. But fortunately the library has the Oxford World's Classics of <i>In the World</i>, a later translation, from the 1960s, I think.<br /><br />Some of the howlers you describe are terrible, and some are <i>hilarious</i>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-54103813686487477362017-02-08T08:26:03.703-06:002017-02-08T08:26:03.703-06:00You mean the Schneider translation is still being ...You mean the Schneider translation is still being inflicted on people? Oh dear. I'm glad the essence of Gorky manages to shine through the murk, but I complained about this wretched Englishing repeatedly: <a href="http://languagehat.com/a-bad-translation/" rel="nofollow">1</a>, <a href="http://languagehat.com/a-bad-translation-ii/" rel="nofollow">2</a>, <a href="http://languagehat.com/the-people-of-semika/" rel="nofollow">3</a>.Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-87882520585736620712017-02-07T10:24:39.094-06:002017-02-07T10:24:39.094-06:00Why don't I remember those, I ask myself, know...Why don't I remember those, I ask myself, knowing the answer. Okay, <a href="http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-childhood.html" rel="nofollow">here is</a> <i>My Childhood</i>.<br /><br />Maybe by the time I read <i>My Apprenticeship</i> I will again have forgotten about your posts.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-488882238698474982017-02-07T10:14:33.808-06:002017-02-07T10:14:33.808-06:00I already did the first two, so I just need to wri...I already did the first two, so I just need to write about this last one. And I am waaay behind (as usual) -- I have a pile of neat books to write about. This time my excuse is the state of the world. :DJeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14247515387599954817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-10673650076081486092017-02-06T22:04:41.798-06:002017-02-06T22:04:41.798-06:00A jolly, happy homeless shelter, compared to Gorky...A jolly, happy homeless shelter, compared to Gorky's childhood.<br /><br />Yes, I will enjoy seeing the Tsvetaeva translation. What a good project.<br /><br />As for how <i>War and Peace</i> is going, ah, Prince Andrei just died! It is so sad.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-83651416377963089262017-02-06T20:35:16.305-06:002017-02-06T20:35:16.305-06:00After reading this blog post, I am not surprised t...After reading this blog post, I am not surprised that his best known fictional work/play is literally set in a homeless shelter.<br /><br />How's War and Peace going? On the subject of Russian literature, I've begun translating Tsvetaeva's verse play Fortune. Will be putting up a long, drafty excerpt on Patreon, if you want to see how the sausage is made.mayareadsbookshttp://mayareadsbooks.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-29948063941592674302017-02-06T15:38:51.607-06:002017-02-06T15:38:51.607-06:00Yes, he is not that kind of idealist. You're ...Yes, he is not <i>that</i> kind of idealist. You're going to write a post about the whole trilogy? I hope to read the other two soonish. They're a sensible length.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-87458598882182381912017-02-06T14:09:44.402-06:002017-02-06T14:09:44.402-06:00Ha, I just finished My Universities. I was really...Ha, I just finished My Universities. I was really surprised when he was happy for a little while, but then there was a spectacular disaster and it went back to normal. I was also highly entertained by his hatred for Tolstoyans -- "All this blather about the simple wisdom of the Russian peasants! Every peasant I met was stupid and cruel! The country was worse than the city!"Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14247515387599954817noreply@blogger.com