kennyp – Member
Which ones did you read an which would you recommend?
First was a collection of short stories by Checkhov (not the Star Trek one!!). Like any collection it had good and bad, but there was one called The Exclamation Mark that left me overwhelmed at how a simple piece of punctuation can be so powerful. Admittedly these days a very over used piece of punctuation.
Second was Eugene Onegin. I heard it brilliantly adapted for Radio 4 over the summer so sought out the full version. I think (from what Google tells me) it comes down a lot to what version you read in translation (with it being a poem) but the version I read was beautiful. And I’m sure even better in the original Russian. A simple story but powerfully told. If the radio version is still available it’s well worth checking out.
Cool, ta, will have a google for those.
Haven’t read much russian stuff, loved Crime and Punishment though, but I think alot of these books come down to whether there’s a good translation. I tried reading the brothers Karamazov too, but the translation was terrible, I ended up giving up. Not a Russian translation but it was the same when I read the Trial, the translation was rubbish I struggled through to the end(I think this is why I had no patience for brothers Karamazov), but mind you that could just be Kafka as I read a load of his short stories too, very difficult to read…