tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post7533935992290628517..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Notes on The Foundation Pit's strangeness - thoughtfulness among the general tempo of laborAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-12577072497134051612019-09-04T19:38:12.014-05:002019-09-04T19:38:12.014-05:00Now that's a stack of books.
The first page o...Now that's a stack of books.<br /><br />The first page of Platonov again! I should have written about the 2nd page, or the 17th.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-44103024554089178812019-09-04T16:21:15.301-05:002019-09-04T16:21:15.301-05:00I was just about to read this, once I've finis...I was just about to read this, once I've finished a few more of the books I'm in the middle of. I've read the first page.<br /><br />It was part of a stack of books a friend returned to me after I'd left them at his house 15 or so years ago. Curious what I was into back then. Lots of Soviet stuff - both We and Envy, both of which I've read before. I'm reading some Olesha short stories, which I'm really enjoying. He reminds me most of Robert Walser. Also some Gorky, whose better than I remember. Also currently reading Nadezhda Mandelstam's Hope against Hope, about the persecution of her husband Osip, and Shklovsky's book about Mayakovsky.obookihttps://obooki.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-14820272946624418842019-09-04T09:11:01.531-05:002019-09-04T09:11:01.531-05:00Huh. On the one hand, I wish I had remembered to l...Huh. On the one hand, I wish I had remembered to look up Platonov on Languagehat; on the other, what an interesting result. We approached the book - writing about the book - from an almost identical direction.<br /><br />To anyone interested, skim me and <a href="http://languagehat.com/kotlovan/" rel="nofollow">read Languagehat</a>.<br /><br />Probably good I did not read that first. This devil was hard enough to write as it was. Why didn't I start with something easier?<br /><br />Where I am going with this, scheduled for tomorrow, is: jarring is good. Translators, in general, should jar more. With Platonov, of course, they should jar a lot. Make my teeth rattle in my head.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-33841341560358823752019-09-04T08:20:01.970-05:002019-09-04T08:20:01.970-05:00If it was jarring, it was well translated. If it ...If it was jarring, it was well translated. If it had read smoothly, it would have been badly translated.Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-40770334163902320302019-09-04T07:43:35.757-05:002019-09-04T07:43:35.757-05:00Reading Soul and other stories made me wonder abou...Reading Soul and other stories made me wonder about how well Platanov was translated. There were jarring moments for me that didn't jar my son, who is in grad school studying Russian literature. He's not advanced enough yet to tell me why, though--or else there's a disconnect between my study of satire and his study of Russian culture.Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17975028272143207826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-34924154863431522182019-09-04T07:38:53.674-05:002019-09-04T07:38:53.674-05:00The expectations, they wuther once more! Calloo, ...The expectations, they wuther once more! Calloo, callay!<br /><br /><i>Or so these translators make it appear.</i><br /><br />And so it is. I wrote about it here:<br />http://languagehat.com/kotlovan/<br /><br />And here's a nice little piece about his style:<br />https://russianlife.com/stories/online/why-stalin-called-andrei-platonov-scum-with-8-quirky-quotes/Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.com