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Although you can do better than Garnett these days, her translations are not bad. It's common knowledge that she made mistakes, but if her mistakes are more famous than other translators' that's because her translations have borne the most scrutiny. Russian translators and scholars of Russian literature rarely have much bad to say about her; in fact, they often acknowledge her respectfully as a pioneer who did groundbreaking work.

>>9262054

It's fair enough that she was the first for many to be able to connect with the books in her time, but they turn something great into a chore to read.

Comparing hers to other translations I feel like she isn't the translator books should be getting printed for and prescribed with.

>>9262114
What book are you trying to read? I can probably recommend a better translation.

What about it is embarrassing?

>>9261940
grow a pair

nobody cares about you unless your hdot girl then i care give me your snapchat please

If (you) can read, retain, write and combine-- why not? If (you) need assistance, the resources are at (((your))) fingertips..

>>9261850
I only want to attend Uni so I can become a teacher or a lecturer and so I can say with some conviction, if you don't care for any sort of qualification and you just want to be well read and educated then self-education and youtube professors are the best senpai.

>>9261903
Yeah, try to find half the shit I have with my university resources. It's only awaste of money if you fuck around your entire time.

>>9261670
Me

I jump

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>>9261670
would never read anything written chronologically non-linearly (e.g. biographies, histories) but i read most other non-fiction in order of what interests me the most immediately

Never, I'm autist and it makes me uncomfortable not to read linearly

Kama Sutra. Don't be a bitch. Ask her on a date.

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if you were a robot, you'd have a job.

>>9261546
>>9261546
>>9261546
I wish I had any courage to do so; by now im barely capable to function in society. I can't even wrap my head why would she talk to or even notice me.
>>9261553
I'm still living with my parents and attending lets call it some sort of uni on daily basis.

I dunno
No
Yes.

>>9261520
Honest answer.

>>9261514
Its not so much communism as nihilism, but A Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger would be a good starting point.

still a virgin?

>>9261504
Obviously if I'm on this board.

ur class made the right decision. it's amazing if you like dystopian sci fi. if not, it's ok

i cant speak for other people, but i havent

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>>9261457
They're awesome, he basically speaks about his framework of phenomenologically understanding what drives the act and experience of writing framed by his reading of Kierkegaard and Coleridge intersperced with an engaging biography of his life and work as a writer.

Shits dope

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Final bump with some lectures regarding it

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/14/the-misfit-2

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-writing-seminar-from-hell-inspired-by-david-milch

He also goes into great detail talking about the lives and significance of Herman Melville and St Paul which are fantastic

>>9261072
remember an ep where hannibal was talking about paradise lost

>>9261072
Hannibal reads obscure German philosophers/occultists

Will reads Reddit-core

>>9261153
I don't see Will reading a lot, at least not after he met Hannibal...but i don't think he would surf boards either.

>This shit annoys me
Why

>>9261000
Touch of the 'tism.

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>>9260986
?

>Book spoils the introduction in the ending

>>9260941
>>9260948
Both of these are the same thing if you think about it.

>death of Ivan ilyich
whoa spoilers bro!

Not sure about any others but P+V was tough going. Dialogue especially felt stilted and unnatural, more like what I'd expect from Google Translate than a published work.

P&V translations are most precise, but have rather rough flow. Just stop being a little bitch and learn Russian, фaм.

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Burgin & O'Connor was fine.

>>9260770
Hmmmmmmm

Is it good

It was ok..

is pretty good

>>9260723
>how to change the world
>he's a minor celebrity who specializes in criticizing leftist strawmans while being a self-help guru

Why would you ever listen to Jordan Peterson?

>>9260747
Because he's an epic meme

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>Orwell
>Huxley
>Nietzsche

>>9260625
Can anyone suggest me a good Caravaggio book please? Thanks.

I think Dorian Grey is cool OP.

>>9260625
un homme qui dort in some way

>>9260638
Dorian is first on my list atm

Is Freud's On Narcissism worth getting into, or is it too dated?

>>9260655
Haven't heard about this before, sounds good. Have you watched the movie?