what to read next that isn't pynchon

[Richard Ryan]

This is an appealing recommendation, but then I see dissenters on the Briggs translation complaining about the soldiers' voices being rendered in Cockney, the French phrases being translated without comment, the German and French characters being given accents, a character with a speech impediment being made to sound like Elmer Fudd, etc.  That certainly gives one pause.

I liked the Maude translation of Anna K. well enough.  It seemed elegant and readable - the professor I read it with 20 years ago, who was fluent in Russian, said he thought it was the best of Tolstoy translations in English. Never read "W&P" and probably should get down to it if I'm ever going to.....

--- On Tue, 7/29/08, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
From: malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com>
Subject: Re: what to read next that isn't pynchon
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 5:56 PM

My wife read it.  Liked it a lot.  She read Constance Garnett's Anna Karenina and thought the new W&P an improvement.  Worth noting, as Garnett has been the standard for both books for nearly a century.

          "Henry" : 
          Big Book:  Isn't there a comparatively recent translation of 
          War and Peace that's supposed to be top drawer?  
          Anyone read it yet?





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          "Henry" : 
          Big Book:  Isn't there a comparatively recent translation of 
          War and Peace that's supposed to be top drawer?  
          Anyone read it yet?

Anthony Briggs for Viking Press: 

http://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Leo-Tolstoy/dp/067003469X

I bought my copy two years back, but between Proust & Pynchon,
my eyeballs are in search of shor
ter, more digestable works. Not to 
mention this mounting pile of metaphysical texts constantly demanding
my attention. Evola on Heremetics is proving to be quite the education:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola

In addition to W & P, there are two early 20th century masterworks
that seem to apply—Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" and Thomas 
Mann's "Magic Mountain."

But I suspect the "open sesame" will be:

http://tinyurl.com/5vsju9

http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org/Documents/Bios/regardie.htm



 



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