Is he still good when translated into English? How much better

>>8465821
english is for retards

FUCKING READ HIM HOLY SHIT WHY DO YOU HAVE AUTISM YOU IDIOTS WOULDN'T LISTEN TO GOULD'S BACH BECAUSE HE PLAYS A PIANO JESUS FUCK

>>8465949
To be fair Gould's Bach is kind of hard to listen to and it's not because he's playing a piano

>>8465821
He знaю, нa aнглийcкoм нe читaл.
Ктo-нибyдь читaл "Шaтyны", paз yж peчь кocнyлacь pyccкoй литepaтypы?

>>8466060
>нa aнглийcкoм
Eh?

>>8466060
Tихo, нe пaли кoнтopy

>>8465949
lmao contain your anus
>>8466060
what?

>>8465907
yeah
anyways can someone answer my question?

I can only tell you that I've read a couple of his works in English and thought they were great, though I didn't like the books.

Кaкoe coвпaдeниe! Я ceйчac читaю Aннy Кapeнинy нa pyccкoм (oчeнь мeдлeннo).
In my opinion so far, I surprisingly think it is actually a lot better in the Russian. The writing feels much more conversational and warm (that is in comparison with the Maude translation)

>>8466060
Heт, я нe читaл... этo нaпиcaнo Toлcтым?

>>8465821

During his lifetime he knew English translators Louise and Aylmer Maude personally and gave his personal approval of their work. It has the added benefit of being in the public domain and readily available
Ann Dunnigan's W&P is also highly regarded

>>8465821
If you like soap operas like his junk, I doubt it matters how good the writing is.

>>8466253
>Я ceйчac читaю Aннy Кapeнинy нa pyccкoм (oчeнь мeдлeннo).
I am also doing this funnily enough. It's weird to me how much easier Tolstoy is to read than Dostoesvky. I wouldn't necessarily have guessed that from English translations

>>8466328
>If you like soap operas like his junk
>He's only read his novels
>Reading only his worst stuff

>>8467222
>having to read particular works for it to be worth a damn
>his genius is not self evident in all that he has written
and faggots believe he was the greatest author to ever exist. what a laugh.

>>8467238
>This writing is terrible!
>Ah sir, that's just a scribble he made as a baby
>Well it should show his genius

>>8467254
you're god damn right it should.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.

He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.

>>8467254
>implying tolstoy wrote war and peace and anna karenina as a baby

>>8467282
>Anna Karenina
>Soap Opera

If you refuse to read a book because it's translated you are beyond help.

>>8467518
just think of how unrealistic it is to learn enough of EVERY language to be able to read the greatest works of the particular languages. I mean, if you're say, chinese, and you want to learn russian to read Petersburg, as well as English to read Ulysses, you're going to be spending such significant time of your life, that you're really not going to be able to keep yourself alive long enough to fully understand them both. So left with that problem, you're either left to choose one other language to become incredibly proficient in as well as your native tongue, and just concentrate on those, ignoring all other grand works of the world because you don't want to read them in one of those two languages. It's fucking retarded. not everyone even has the capacity to become a polyglot. Just fucking read the damn books, shut the fuck up, if you don't, you're fucking missing out.

>>8465973
*grunting intensifies*

>>8467584
>not liking gould's singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ

speaking of gould, has anyone read The Loser by Bernhard? I kind of picked it up in passing, quite a novel.

>>8466355
Agreed, read Кpeйцepoвa coнaтa recently and it was surprisingly easy. I've only been learning Russian for a year and a half, know about 3000 words and am incapable of having a conversation in Russian, but I could often read a full page without having to check a translation.

Ahh, good to see you gentlemen. I too am learning Russian. I almost am proficient in Latin as well.

At first glance many a man would consider Russian a language of barbarians and slaves - and who could blame them? To the refined Englishman's mind a sentence without linguistic articles is not a sentence at all.

But there is an ever so sweet, and concise pleasure from reading a sentence in Russian. The Cyrillic alphabet, the "Right-to-the-point" feeling, and the way certain letters roll off one's tongue.

It's admirable and distinguishable at that.

>>8467518
i love schulz but you just cant read him in english, no way

so forever and ever only 35kk polish folks will know how good he really was

>>8467829
>To the refined Englishman's mind
Please stop

>>8467857
What's wrong?