Boris Liberman wrote:
ann sanfedele wrote:
Oh dear -- Boris, I LOVED Crime and Punishment - one of the very
first serious books I read when
I was just 19 years old.... but I wasn't Forced to read it... I was
presented it along with several other
marvelous works of lit by my first lover. Others included Madam
Bovary, The Catcher in The Rye,
Point Counterpoint, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby - I was
taking a couple of night courses
at NOrthwestern U and working as a receptionist for a railroad
company in downtown Chicago -
I had stopped attending school full time becuase I had had
mono-nucleosis and full time schoo was too tough. The receptionist
job required me only to sit and greet people on the Corporate legal
department
of this large company.... so I read a lot.
I think possibly 15-16 is a bit young for reading profundity. :)
ann
Ann, with all due respect and advance apology I must point out the age
difference, 19 (girl) against 16 (boy) is significant. When I was 16,
I also read "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, and that one I absolutely
loved. Go figure. Perhaps, at the time I was significantly more jovial.
it is supposed to be the other way around :-)
I never have been able to read War and Peace... though I liked the
movie hehe:
Another point is that I cannot judge the quality of translation as I
never read Dostoyevsky ever since, let alone translated to a foreign
language. My main recollection of the experience at the time is the
feeling of something heavy pressing relentlessly from above.
Boris
Well "Crime and Punishment" is something I wouldn't want to read these
days ... but I followed it
quickly with 3 others of Dostoyevsky's - maybe he's better translated
to English ...
I was 19 in 1956, the tenor of the times may have affected my
appreciation, too.
ann
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