So with my $25 Chapters.ca gift card my HPYs gave me, I bought a literary classic «Crime and Punishment» by Dostoevsky. Well.. and also «War and Peace» by Tolstoy, but I've only started to read the first one.
I've only finished reading the introduction written by Joseph Frank.. dunno if that's the guy who did the translation or what.. but what he did was to provide the historical and personal context up front to shed light into the mind of the author when the novel was written. Anyways, this should be my GO train reading for the next while.. at my rate of reading (15 pages a day) I am guessing maybe a month?! Doh.
Thanks HPYs!
Oh, so why the Russian authors? In Grade 11 I took this English course in which everything we read are from Russia or Eastern Europe: Tolstoy, Kafka.. etc. Well except «Waiting for Godot» by Samuel Beckett, who's Irish.. but what the hey. In fact «Waiting for Godot» is still my favourate play, while Kafka is still one of my favourate authors.
Then again, go browse through my novel book case and you'll see an interesting collection of authors: Orwell, PKD, Kafka, Asimov. Now add Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Cervantes.. You tell me :)
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
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Hmmm ... perhaps you might like these:
Crash by J.G. Ballard
L'Etranger by Albert Camus
Oh.. Now that you remind me, I did read «L'Étranger» as part of the same English course I mentioned. However, my copy of it was translated as "The Outsider" instead.. and only after reading this wikipedia page did I make the connection! :)
Thank you!
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