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Originally Posted by Glice
Animal Farm and 1984 I wouldn't recommend for Cantankernine - I suspect she's past the (mental) age of finding them blinding. Not to be dismissive or condescending, I just don't think it'll click.
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well it's a fucking obvious book but it's kinda like watching chicken run-- mildly amusing, occasionally funny-- but only better, because it provides you with some good good laughs.
the reason it wouldn't blow her mind though it's cos she's already a cynic.
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I think Kafka is a young person's writer.
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"wow, man, he turned into a bug!" may be a young person's book
but the trial? the castle? america? no fucking way. he's not hermann hesse.
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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37
Yeah, the paragraph translation I have bores me to no end. I loved the Inferno translation that kept verse form.
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it's not the paragraph or no paragraph. it's paradise that's shit, no matter how you cut it. a bunch of old theologies illustrated for didactic purposes-- no fun.
Inferno is cool because that's where the hyena takes revenge against all his enemies.
By the way, most verse translations are shit because they force the language and betray the meaning. My first read of this book was in a prose translation and it was AWESOME. All the imagery and symbolism are preserved, rather than the less important terza rima. Now some people could say no, the terza rima is inseparable. Sure, if you love poetics, but don't most people read this shit to see flying dragons and hear the condemned screaming in hell?