What translation, Aimless? Anybody?
― dow, Saturday, 19 November 2016 01:39 (seven years ago) link
I have the Sophie Wilkins & Burton Pike translation.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 19 November 2016 02:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/03/26/robert-musil-infinities-man-without-qualities/
This review has Hofmann saying a bunch of really nice things about Musil but its really unbalanced as a critique of translation in the sense that I have no idea why the NYRB edition is a good translation in the same way that the Archipelago edition of the Novellas is terrible. The review of the NYRB is simply puff.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
Finally made up my mind to get the 2-vol, but on the way, I ran into an ad for Agathe, published in Dec. 2019. Should I get this too? Read it first?
― dow, Monday, 13 July 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
Maybe I should wait for *all* the related material? Brian Wilson, Arthur Russell, Bolano, aieeee
― dow, Monday, 13 July 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
Agathe is basically a carefully edited extract. Get the full thing and read it first.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 13 July 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
Thanks. Had to call the plumber, so yet another sign that I should read all the books I have before ordering more.
― dow, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link