Posted on June 12, 2008 by markbieda
A few quick points:
The new series of Proust translations:
(1) Lydia Davis translated Swann’s Way (the new translation). The amazon link is here.
Also, amazingly… the Kindle edition of this is $3.19!! Wow. I haven’t used the Kindle, but this is the price for a recent excellent translation. Because Kindle is not available here in Canada, I’ve [...]
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Posted on May 20, 2008 by markbieda
I just wanted to write a short post here about translations.
There is this wave of new translations of classics: like new translations of Proust and Tolstoy. In my view, this is fantastic. I read War and Peace last year and I still wish that I had chosen the new translation that just came out. Not [...]
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