You fuckers tend to have good taste in general. Which translation of Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire should I get?
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Anthony Rogers
Gabriel Phillips
the most expensive version
Charles Perry
Richard Howard or Oxford edition
Mason Russell
dont waste your time just read an equivalent poet in english
Jack Nelson
My French is very rudimentary (1 year of a high school class, plus the general acquaintance that any well-read person acquires with Romance languages). Personally, I enjoy reading over the French slowly while consulting multiple different translations.
This site has multiple translations together with the French:
fleursdumal.org
Benjamin Wood
Can't translate poetry
There are a few instances of great reinterpretations
Like Pope, Dryden and German Shakespeare or Moncrief
Ayden Jones
The Oxford parallel is actually really nice
Luis Gutierrez
Walter Martin is pretty good, as is Richard Howard.
Zachary Gomez
Best translator for Dostoevskys short stories?
Jack Hernandez
Me.
Brody Richardson
PV is the most accurate meaning it is stilted
Mcduff is the most expressive
REVISED Garnett is one of my favorites
Never buy Penguin
Dostoe is a great dialogue writer but the translation isn't super important
Aiden Ramirez
>Dostoe is a great dialogue writer
Is he? Is it just a Russian thing where people repeat themselves like four times in a sentence?
Carter Brown
Why never Penguin?
Also, did any of those translators actully do his short stories? I can only find one P&V collection
Easton Rogers
>McDuff, Garnett
They didn't even translate short stories.
>PV is the most accurate
Stop parroting random shit on topics you have no idea about and kill yourself, worthless piece of subhuman garbage.
Go with Magarshak.
Angel Smith
>Go with Magarshak.
Ok, thank you.
Asher Butler
>Stop parroting random shit on topics you have no idea about
Nope they are, that's what makes them bad, now fuck off or provide a more accurate translator that I must have never heard of
Kevin Scott
> implying that if I were to provide you a more accurate translator you'd read again dostoevskij's works from scratch
stop posturing
Oliver Carter
Right, so who else writes paeans to hot Jew girls, negress hookers, lesbian vampires and beautiful corpses in half decent English then?
Nathan Ward
translation doesn't matter at all unless you're postmodernist with an obsession for deconstructing the language. what matters is the content and the emotions\message\concepts that the author is conveying
Nicholas Reed
The version I have is the 'new directions book' version which includes a wide variety of translators and the original french, and I find it quite good.
Alexander Gray
>reads and writes in English
>can't read and write in French
all the words are basically the same. wtf is wrong with you people?
Carson Reyes
>translation doesn't matter at all
>what matters is that the author is conveyed appropriately
really activates the old almonds
Hunter Long
is this true
Austin Cruz
Sort of. 70% of English is either from French or Latin.