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« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2004, 11:24:32 PM »
Bravo.   Wink  En francais?
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« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2004, 05:23:10 AM »
Quote from: Pavo on May 24, 2004, 11:24:32 PM
Bravo.   Wink  En francais?
Huh Huh Huh
I don't understand this sentence:'En francais?'

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6paTR KapaMa3oBbI /\ocToeBcKo7o
this one Huh

Roll Eyes

I meant I don't know what is :'6paTR KapaMa3oBbI /\ocToeBcKo7o'

and ' Roll Eyes' --> need your explain  Grin[/color]
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« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2004, 06:48:10 AM »
"En francais?"
I suppose he thought you knew French, since this is asking you if you wanted him to write it "in French."

"6paTR KapaMa3oBbI /\ocToeBcKo7o"

Translating this into cryllic and then from cryllic to english it means he's reading Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov (in Russian, I'm guessing).  Now translate that into Chinese and you're set!

Sorry for answering for you I just had to stop the maddness!
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« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2004, 06:56:13 AM »
Quote from: Ivan on May 25, 2004, 06:48:10 AM
"En francais?"
I suppose he thought you knew French, since this is asking you if you wanted him to write it "in French."
Shocked

heh, I just know a little..a few French Grin

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"6paTR KapaMa3oBbI /\ocToeBcKo7o"

Translating this into cryllic and then from cryllic to english it means he's reading Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov (in Russian, I'm guessing).  Now translate that into Chinese and you're set!

oh,see Smiley
well..this froum didn't support Chinese symbol Undecided
you only can see :卡拉马佐夫兄弟

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Sorry for answering for you I just had to stop the maddness!

No sorry, you helped me a lot, thanks  Wink
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« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2004, 07:00:35 AM »
see?..It changed into some numbers, but while I type it, it's in Chinese symbol  Sad
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« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2004, 07:09:04 AM »
wow~~find a way to show it Cheesy

*in simplified Chinese*





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« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2004, 11:19:37 AM »
Srecka

When you wrote you were reading Le Hussard sur le Toit, I thought you were reading the book in French and hence would understand my question.

As for the Cyrillic letters using the Roman font, I was just trying to be clever to see how far I could get.  I thought the /\, the Russian D, was particularly nice, because it involved two characters that I had to underline.  Anyway, there is no denying the Cyrillic fonts are better.

As for simplified Chinese, I will just close with,

pengyou, friend,


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« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2004, 09:29:25 PM »
See!!! see!!!

well..I just like to call that book in French  Grin

the Cyrillic letters..I didn't recognize it  Tongue
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« Reply #23 on: June 17, 2004, 03:47:03 PM »
Quote from: Ivan on April 12, 2004, 10:02:55 PM

Goethe's "Faust"



Honestly speaking, I think that Goethe is completely overrated. We had to read "Faust" in school and although it was definitely an interesting read I don't deem this drama a masterpiece like everybody else. If I were you I'd pick up Schiller's "The Robbers", tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, some plays by Brecht and Günther Grass' "The Tin Tin Drum", since they have to offer much more than our beloved Johann Wolfgang.
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« Reply #24 on: June 17, 2004, 03:49:42 PM »
My reading list:
Rabelais -  Gargantua and Pantagruel
Freud - Totem and Taboo
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Spivak - Can the Subaltern Speak?
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« Reply #25 on: August 03, 2004, 10:31:32 AM »
Current:
Don Quixote: Cervantes (highly recommended by FMD)
<re-reading>Demons: Well who else!

On the shelf:
The plague: Camus
Sound and the fury: Faulkner
The insulted and the injured: by FMD...a lucky find!

Going to try again.
Ulysses: James Joyce (has anyone?)
Gravity's rainbow: Thomas pynchon

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you should get something from Joseph Conrad

I agree, once I could understand, he and Faulkner remind me of FMD as much as a writer can remind one of another.
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« Reply #26 on: August 03, 2004, 12:34:49 PM »
>>Ulysses: James Joyce (has anyone?)
Actually I'm reading that now Smiley

also reading:
Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
I'm only on page 50 or so, but so far it has been quite the experiance. If anyone has a chance pick this book up! or anything else by this author.

just finished reading:
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (highly recommended)

>>I agree, once I could understand, he and Faulkner remind me of FMD as much as a writer can remind one of another.<<

well, that is kind-of wierd; to me neither Faulkner nor Conrad are like D. Actually they are totally different IMO. Very different styles of writing and hugely different idealogies.

>>The plague: Camus<<
Great book. I read it sometime ago, and might pick it up again.

>>Sound and the fury: Faulkner<<
Never really got into this one too much, and I've tried several times.

>>The insulted and the injured: by FMD...a lucky find!<<
Good short story, and we even have it on our website Wink just look at the "Literary -Works" section. After reading this short novela you simply must rent Kurosawa's "Red Beard" - Kurosawa used many themes, as well as complete scenes, from that story. I made a thread about the movie sometime ago: http://www.fyodordostoevsky.com/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=119

 
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« Reply #27 on: August 03, 2004, 03:17:03 PM »
Quote from: axon on August 03, 2004, 12:34:49 PM
also reading:
Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
I'm only on page 50 or so, but so far it has been quite the experiance. If anyone has a chance pick this book up! or anything else by this author.

This is on my list - I've heard nothing but greatness about this book.

Also, axon, you are one hell of a 'forums maintenance & cleaning - supervisor'.  We've voted on giving you a raise and supplying you with full benefits from now on.   Grin
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« Reply #28 on: August 03, 2004, 03:20:46 PM »
hehehe.

well I'm not posting too much but I'm always lurking; my mop is always wet and have you noticed that your garbage cans are empty each morning Wink
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« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2004, 08:03:52 PM »
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well, that is kind-of wierd; to me neither Faulkner nor Conrad are like D. Actually they are totally different IMO. Very different styles of writing and hugely different idealogies

Let me see if I can explain. The similarity I felt between FMD and conrad & faulkner was instinctive. I have never examined it. But I'll try.

In FMD, I think, one of the most important subjects is the conflict between idealism and reality. Conrad, deals with it too. Of course not exactly like FMD but in his own way. Especially in heart of darkness and Lord Jim. While the conflict in FMD erupts more subtly (usually), in Conrad it happens in more spectacular situations. Also Conrad has the same tone as FMD, the satirical and sometimes angry tone. The characters also exhibit similar helplessness, a strange kind of helplessness of being a subject of fate.
With faulkner the similarity that I felt is more diffcult to explain.  I still have read very little of him to point out anything. Only As I lay Dying. Perhaps I can explain it better after I finish the ones I have on my shelf. The sound and the fury and Absalom Absalom.

BTW Who do you think most reminds you of FMD?
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