Wednesday, September 11, 2019

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


Horrible bland English.  Unreadable.

Get the Charles Wilbour translation.

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9-11-2019

Special Friday Night post--Robert Graves' I Claudius--just beautiful--poetic--because written by a poet

who needed money. Derrick Jacobi as Claudius, the Roman Emperor. The Voice--narrated in the first person, is unmistakeably Graves'--has ...