After much vacillation I decided to buy the book in the original Italian rather than deal with a translation. This review follows a lot of other lukewarm or guarded reviews and I am very interested to see whether I feel, after reading it, that people are just uncomfortable with the sentiments, particularly in the politically correct world of today, or whether there is more on a stylistic level that gets people.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Prague's Cemetary, by Umberto Eco
- 19/05/2011 07:47:01 PM
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I do look forward to it.
- 19/05/2011 11:23:47 PM
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Re: I do look forward to it.
- 19/05/2011 11:53:40 PM
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Having read it in Italian and Spanish last year upon release...
- 20/05/2011 01:22:49 AM
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Re: Having read it in Italian and Spanish last year upon release...
- 20/05/2011 02:25:04 AM
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"Cemetery", not "Cemetary".
- 29/05/2011 04:42:49 AM
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