A Batch of New Books
- H. P. Lovecraft’s Collected Stories – Part 1, Collected Stories – Part 2 RSS and Supernatural Horror in Literature. I’ve never read any of the Cthulu stuff so these should be interesting. I guess they’ll take a while. There were so many stories in his collected work I had to break it into two parts.
- Nicolo Machiavelli’s The Prince. With the elections coming up, I thought this would be interesting. So far it seems translated really well and is nice and readable.
- Jules Verne’s A Journey to the Center of the Earth. I’ve seen the movie but never read the book. Should be interesting. Hopefully the translation is good.
- Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis. A quick odd story. Very well translated. He definitely has a unique style.
Monado in Toronto wrote:
The translation is probably terrible. I got a copy of “The Annotated 20,000 Leagues” once and it was full of corrections, e.g. Our Hero says he was in the disagreeable territory of Nevada when Verne meant the (fossil-bearing) Badlands. But the corrections were not integrated into the text, so I never waded through it.
Posted 06 May 2008 at 8:09 am ¶
ScottS-M wrote:
Yeah it wasn’t the best but it wasn’t horrible. It seemed like the translator really tried to stick to the original. Except some parts of the original were apparently pretty tedious, like the lists and lists of fish (and I’m a marine biologist).
Posted 06 May 2008 at 8:12 am ¶