Tập Làm Kiến Trúc Sư - Những Ngôi Nhà Kết Hợp Công Việc tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Tasha Falconer tashfalconer — Karen mentiioned wanting prose that puts its arms around you, well, this prose grabs you and takes you right into Dostoevsky's world. His strength in recreating actual dialogue -- and changing the styles of speaking of different characters -- plays the largest role in absorbing the reader. At least that's it for me. Not that the secriptive language is wanting in any way. It's not. But this is a spoken novel. The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation is especially fine with the dialgogue. Instead of just translating the sense of what each character says, they translate the tone of voice, the verbal idiosycnracies. For instance, when Roghozin, a perpetually dissatisfied, but sadly-in-love-with-the-wrong-girl guy, kvetches to the Prince (who is called the Idiot, but isn't an idiot) "She gave her maid Katya a scarf of mine that, even if she lived in luxury, she never maybe saw the like." I can hear this guy' kvetching when he says that, especially from that misplaced maybe and the emphatic even if she lived in luxury (or how about, "It's a strange riddle for me why she's marrying you" This slightly non-idiomatic English isn't seen elsewhere in the writing. That is, P & V write impeccable English, but kow when not to be impeccable. The dialogue throughout sounds exactly like my Russian speaking family's kvetching, declaiming, arguing, discussing all of the time. Beware. That's what Doestoevsky's Russians do. And the unlikeliest people suddenly start explaining themselves, their thoughts, their motivations, and others listen. So do I. I love it. I'll read it again, I know. Incidentally, Dostoevsky had a big influence on the early 20th century novelists like Joyce and Woolf and you can see why in this novel.

Prasetha Pillai prasethapb84e — HILARIOUS. Can't wait to read the next one!