KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Very poor new translation of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables--all the poetry and mood is gone!

https://www.amazon.com/Mis%C3%A9rables-Modern-Library-Classics/dp/0812974263#reader_0812974263

Horrible bland English. Unreadable.

Get the Charles Wilbour translation.

9-11-2019

KyiMayKaung

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Very poor new translation of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables--all the poetry and mood is gone!

I post this not because I want to show off--well only a little--but because I want all those struggling on the borders to take heart.

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