What's the intended message that I'm supposed to get out of this book? Somthing about innocence?
Also what's Veeky Forums's opinion on the idiot?
What's the message?
Connor Miller
Asher White
When I was nine, my thirteen year old brother pulled this out a bookstore and said: hey gerry, they wrote a book about you!
I somehow feel too embarrassed to read it.
James Walker
It's a nice read, it's about the misadventures of this one guy that came back to Russia after being in a Swiss sanitarium for 4 years
There's a part where one of the characters is on a train, someone plucks the guy's cigar and throws it out the train window, so he does the same to the persons poodle
Julian Walker
no there isn't
the general tells that story but is exposed by nastasya who knew he had simply read about it in a magazine
Jaxson White
This is my favourite book.
Somehow im too drunk right now
It made me feel something when everything else i felt was lost
Everyone else, do yourself
Parker Butler
Much like you have exposed hmm, life imitates art.
Gavin Ramirez
Why am I not surprised that someone who read the Constance Garnett translation has no idea what they're talking about?
Aaron Adams
Is it bad that I have that edition?
I haven't started it yet.
Zachary Anderson
newyorker.com
Constance Garnett fucked the translations really badly. If she saw a word she didn't know she skipped it.
Ryan Powell
It reads dreadfully. It's much too clean. I would reject a Constance Garnett translation if it was given to me as a gift.