recommend a translation

When you've read the book you can come back and give us your thoughts on the translation.

The fourth is elfriede jelinek. Yokarczuk is the only one I've read (and rate highly). I'm not into their famous blue covers.

Tokarczuk, yok yok.

Moncrief's translation is beautiful, but it's almost as much Moncrief as it is Proust (from what I understand--I can sorta read French). I have yet to try the Davis translation.

"elfriede jelinek"

Ah ok, she's been published by a range of publishers.

I think Europa supporting Ferrante or Archipelago doing the same for Knausgaard is more significant even if they didn't win the Nobel.

As I delve more and more into Shakespeare's plays its become a portal into other, older English translations. With Rabelais and Cervantes I have begun to compile a list in my head, most of which I have read, a couple not. I am taking on the Florio translation next.

Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel (tr. Thomas Urquhart)
Montaigne - Essays (tr. John Florio)
Cervantes - Don Quixote (tr. Tobias Smollett)
Homer - Odyssey/Illiad (tr. George Chapman)
Ovid - Metamorphoses (tr. Arthur Golding)
Plutarch - Lives (tr. Thomas North)

i just started reading the Penguin / M.A Screech Rabelais. do you have any thoughts on Screech vs. Urquhart?

this gets into it somewhat:

https://www.timothyhampton.org/blog/posts/20940

Thanks really like that blog post. I really like Urquhart's solution the most.

No thoughts on "Screech vs. Urquhart?" other than you probably ought to read both.

Really enjoying the Florio, though the rhythm of it means Montaigne's arguments lose some lucidity, at times (though they can be hard to follow iirc from reading them at like 20)