Well... this morning... inspired by OLTL's Anna Karenina storyline (Viki and Sloan), I decided that I'm craving a re-read of the book. The last time I read it... I must have been 13 or 14... so 16 years have passed, and I don't remember much of it. Then I find out there are 11 different translations in English. Here I was, spending a whole hour sampling different translations of the book before I settled on the... David Magarshack version, which felt more fitting for the melodramatic... soap opera nature of the novel. Some of the most popular versions felt a bit too stiff and artificial for my taste. I need to feel the pathos and the drama dripping from every page! I don't want to see commas where they don't belong. So... thank you, Malone and team, for inspiring me to return to one of my favorite novels. The edition is already ordered and should arrive sometime before Christmas. It cost me 1.50 euros for a 1000-page book in pristine condition. This is what good soap operas do... they draw inspiration from many sources, great works that have stood the test of time... and they also INSPIRE people to watch more, read more... Great art is often... if not always, in conversation with other great art.
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