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Pinko Wallace Stevens

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used to love Proust but living la vie Belacqua/helped me understand I'm probably more of a Kafka

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Pinko Wallace Stevens
Pinko Wallace Stevens@PinkoStevens·
@intentionalisms I do like that Wilson captures what I take on good scholarly authority to be Homer's simplicity and speed relative to other, more elevated and formal translations
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@intentionalisms The issue is more the insistence on line-for-line translation even as the meter requires a shorter line. This follows the procedure of Ruden's excellent Aeneid from about a decade earlier, but IMO Virgil is stylistically more amenable to this kind of treatment than Homer
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Pinko Wallace Stevens@PinkoStevens·
@souljagoyteller lots of the other early modern versions that informed KJV can be just as aesthetically compelling while remaining distinct enough (Tyndale, Coverdale, Great, Geneva, etc.) Plus the recent Robert Alter version of the Tanakh is good for the distinct literary qualities of the Hebrew
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Sami Gold
Sami Gold@souljagoyteller·
Do people actually prefer biblical translations that aren’t the King James Version?
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Selen@writingenjoyer·
@bartlebytaco yep lol. first few grafs i skimmed excerpting her most acclaimed book by far, i'm certain it gets worse
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Pinko Wallace Stevens@PinkoStevens·
@WembyCentral I mean yeah it was a genuinely great season that had the misfortune of falling in one of the most stacked years ever
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Pinko Wallace Stevens@PinkoStevens·
@peligrietzer @weltbuch These lists are always fun for pointing out the most outrageous choices; IMO by far the worst thing here is the fact that the only book written in any non-European language is The Vegetarian at #84
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Peli Grietzer
Peli Grietzer@peligrietzer·
The problem with the Guardian top 100 novels list is that it's bourgeois garbage -- not a single Walter Scott novel?!?!
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