Bartleby the scrivener

>>9236605
>Obviously this book is worth to read it.
Wrong.

>>9236605
What are you some kind of translation faggot?

you should obviously read in the language you can best understand, and then do at least a bit of due diligence on the best translation in a search of academic reviews

>>9236609
Waste of time?

>>9236616
There are a lot of books that are eeasier to understand in the original language.. especially french books that are translated into german. Also many english short stories. Its always a matter of how the author writes. Never read melville so i'm asking.

>>9236653
Well, Moby Dick is difficult. Firstly, the author uses a lot of 19th century literature motifs, multisylabbic words that do not appear typically in contemporary works. He also uses a lot of Biblical allusion and reference. And finally he uses 19th century biological terms and seamanship terms, as well as slang and "patois" of foreign sailors.

I think his actual sentence structure and paragraph structures are common sense and easy to read however, maybe almost formulaic.

>>9236667
Oh, and also half the characters are nantucket quakers, and speak a far more archaic, isolated english.

I would imagine that would be difficult to translate as well.

>>9236667
>>9236668
Ok i guess thats clear for me. Would be too much head ache.. german it is then