What the hell, I thought he was a /lit/ meme and then I actually read him and I fucking love him. There's just so much innocent candor and passion in his work. What are the best translations?
>translations
The one Jim Morrison liked. The one that had Rambo sleeping in a bed. It's a side by side
>>8649478
I can't read French, I already speak 5 languages and unfortunately French is not one of them.
>>8649480
Learn french then
>>8649484
I'm in medical school. I don't have time. I can read Dostoevsky in the original language and you probably can't so we're even.
>>8649487
If you really wanted you would do it
I guess you dont really care about literature that much
>You're in love, taken until the month of August!
>You're in love, you're sonnet's make her laugh!
>>8649527
I like it. Reminds me of my high school crushes.
>tfw Rimbaud's teenage crush poetry is greater than anything you will ever do in your life
>>8649477
>Rimbaud
>a /lit/ meme
>wants to read french poetry translated
kys my man
>>8649568
Then how am I supposed to read it? Must I read it without understanding anything and go by what sounds nice?
>>8649487
Rimbaud > Dosto
Poetry > Any other form of literature
Romance languages > slav gibberish
We are not even close to even, doc
>>8649725
Agree, up the pointless and uncritical eurocentrism.
>>8649725
Rimbaud is not better than Dostoevsky you little shit.
>>8649572
you can't - it's that simple. Either learn french or don't read it at all.