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[gileonnen]

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[likeadeuce]

Nice! *uses Laertes icon, sort of*

And you make me want to read The Brothers Karamazov. (Confession: I have started just about every Dostoevsky book, and I LIKE his writing, but I have never actually FINISHED a Dostoevsky book). Is there a translation you recommend (preferably one I can get for free in e-form?)

[gileonnen]

Dostoevsky has my heart, and if you understand that Drakon is really 'steampunk Brothers Karamazov with lesbians and dragons,' then you will probably understand my own novel a lot better. XD That said, while Constance Garnett's translation is not favored by Russian-language purists or people who have a strong investment in the uniqueness of an author's style, it's also quite readable and widely available On the Interwebs.

[likeadeuce]

Heh heh, yeah. I've read my share of "Garnett ruined Russian literature by making it seem stuffy and homogeneous" screeds. But I never had a problem with her stuff as far as conveying story. Thanks!

Maybe TBK will be my project in the new year. Somehow ereaders make those big books seem more doable.

[gileonnen]

Homogeneous, maybe, but I don't find it stuffy at all. I also take issue with the tendency people have to say that she 'Victorianized' the Russian authors--my recent mad dash through the eighteenth century makes me think that she was drawing more on (for example) Sterne, Smollett, Haywood, and Fielding than on (for example) the Brontes or Collins. This could be my own era-prejudice seeping in, though: 'if I like it, it must sound like the eighteenth century!'

The first time I read it, I was reading a paper copy, which was so very daunting--but then I read it online, and it was not only more doable, but I also felt more engaged with the story and the characters. Possibly the Internet has given me bad reading habits.

[gehayi]

Someone else who loves The Brothers Karamazov! Excellent! I heart Dostoyevsky SO much, and have since I was seventeen.

[gileonnen]

... so I take it you haven't seen my NaNo-length Brothers Karamazov fic yet.

[gehayi]

NOVEL-LENGTH BROTHERS KARAMAZOV FIC?!

WHERE??

[gileonnen]

Scroll back on this tag until you get to the beginning!

[lareinenoire]

Oh, man, Aaron fic!! These prompts look brilliant (and I really must read Karamazov when I can find the time), and you've guaranteed that I am going to be pondering Aaron a lot before I teach Titus again next semester!

[gileonnen]

Glad to hear it. ^___^ (Aheh. I find your icon ironic because I requested all men. Seriously. What is wrong with me.)

[lareinenoire]

Well, Aaron fic almost has to include Tamora by default, no?

[gileonnen]

Almost, but not necessarily! If it's set after the play, then she would have to be a memory.

[reconditarmonia]

All these Yuletide posts are popping up on my flist now and I WANT TO WRITE THEM but I cannot because I write too slowly aaahhh.

(especially seekingferret who requested almost all things I actually wanted to write myself even before Yuletide, asjhasjkdhajskdh)

[gileonnen]

No one is stopping you from writing them eventually! I mean. If you want to.

(... oooh, that's quite a request list. I can see why you're tempted!)

[gileonnen]

*grin* I still remember the UTTER AWESOME of the fic you wrote me that first year. In a year of receiving delightful fics, that one was a special joy.