What are you currently reading?

[aligreto]

I saw an edition of the book in Tokyo a few years ago. I will get it!

Was that an English version or a Japanese translation Manabu?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Was that an English version or a Japanese translation Manabu?

It's a Japanese translation of the book. As for literature, I must read books in Japanese- my primary language. Books in other languages don't generate colors and images. Interestingly, however, I prefer English books for science and philosophy. For history books, both the languages are fine.

[vandermolen]

Wilde: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories





It is always interesting to read Wilde's prose. It is always interesting and different and so it is here with this collection of short stories.

My GP once suggested that I read Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - a rather unusual prescription. I can't remember why but I enjoyed it. I remember my mother once talking about it.

[vandermolen]

[Florestan]

Conrad is among my very favorite writers.

[aligreto]

It's a Japanese translation of the book. As for literature, I must read books in Japanese- my primary language. Books in other languages don't generate colors and images. Interestingly, however, I prefer English books for science and philosophy. For history books, both the languages are fine.

Yes, I thought that you might say that Manabu. I was wondering how well Wilde's witticisms would translate into any other language [not being a polyglot myself  ].

[aligreto]

My GP once suggested that I read Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - a rather unusual prescription. I can't remember why but I enjoyed it. I remember my mother once talking about it.

What an odd medical prescription. It was obviously efficacious as you seem to have turned out OK 

[SimonNZ]

Conrad is among my very favorite writers.

iirc that is the one that has The Duel, which Ridley Scott made into the film The Duelists

I used to have a copy but lost it before getting to read it and haven't stumbled on a copy since

[JBS]

Picked up at the bookstore, two Bronte novels that get hardly any attention compared to JE and WH
Charlotte's Villette
Anne's Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Prompted in great part by Aligreto's post last week.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

A Philosophy of Boredom. Lars Svendsen.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Yes, I thought that you might say that Manabu. I was wondering how well Wilde's witticisms would translate into any other language [not being a polyglot myself  ].

I think the dark humor, irony and sarcasm in Wilde's works are very similar to those of Japanese.
Arguably/possibly Wilde's humor may become funnier and wittier in Japanese language than the original English language.

[vandermolen]

What an odd medical prescription. It was obviously efficacious as you seem to have turned out OK 

Yes, indeed it was! He was quite an unusual doctor. I remember once, many years ago, I was quite poorly, and he made a house call to see me (this would never happen now - you can't even get an appointment to see the doctor at the surgery). Anyway, as he came upstairs the two cats jumped off the bed and ran downstairs. When he left, he asked 'shall I send the cats back up?'

[Florestan]

iirc that is the one that has The Duel, which Ridley Scott made into the film The Duelists

Indeed.

I used to have a copy but lost it before getting to read it and haven't stumbled on a copy since

Read it in full here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2305/2305-h/2305-h.htm#link2H_4_0004

[Florestan]

Yes, indeed it was! He was quite an unusual doctor. I remember once, many years ago, I was quite poorly, and he made a house call to see me (this would never happen now - you can't even get an appointment to see the doctor at the surgery). Anyway, as he came upstairs the two cats jumped off the bed and ran downstairs. When he left, he asked 'shall I send the cats back up?'

Reminds me of the good doctor in Cronin's The Citadel. 

[SimonNZ]

Indeed.

Read it in full here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2305/2305-h/2305-h.htm#link2H_4_0004

Have you seen the film The Duelists? Can you say how the film represents or deviates from the story?

[Florestan]

Have you seen the film The Duelists? Can you say how the film represents or deviates from the story?

I've seen the film but I haven't read the story yet. I've just finished reading the first story in the set, Gaspar Ruiz. The Duel is the last but one in the set so it'll take a while until I get to it.

[aligreto]

Picked up at the bookstore, two Bronte novels that get hardly any attention compared to JE and WH
Charlotte's Villette
Anne's Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Prompted in great part by Aligreto's post last week.

I may have, but cannot remember whether or not I have, read Villette in the distant past. If I did I cannot remember it now.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a bit of a difficult read for me in terms of the slightly archaic language but it certainly was a compelling read and I frequently found it to be a page turner. That slight struggle was, however, definitely worth it for me. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.

[aligreto]

I think the dark humor, irony and sarcasm in Wilde's works are very similar to those of Japanese.
Arguably/possibly Wilde's humor may become funnier and wittier in Japanese language than the original English language.

That is interesting to read Manabu.

[aligreto]

Yes, indeed it was! He was quite an unusual doctor. I remember once, many years ago, I was quite poorly, and he made a house call to see me (this would never happen now - you can't even get an appointment to see the doctor at the surgery). Anyway, as he came upstairs the two cats jumped off the bed and ran downstairs. When he left, he asked 'shall I send the cats back up?'

He certainly sounds like a character indeed!

[vandermolen]

He certainly sounds like a character indeed!

He had quite a dry manner which I liked. Once when I was quite ill and he'd done nothing for weeks about it he said 'well, perhaps I should leap into action'.