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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (46020)7/18/1999 11:09:00 PM
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My problems with Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov are a) I can't read them, I can only read translations of them, so I never know how much of what I'm reading is really the author and how much is the translator, plus subtleties, puns, etc. slide right past one, and b) I don't know enough about the culture they are talking about to understand the nuances and atmosphere. I have been to most of the cities and many of the towns or areas that Austen, Trollope, and Hardy write about. I have never been to Russia.
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