What are your thoughts on this book? I’ve been debating picking it up, but have heard mixed things about the translation.
My thoughts are that lawton is a nepo baby hack with shitty taste in literature who owns everything celine wrote yet calls us evil nazis for criticising him
>>25473094Every notable person in Jew York, Los Angeles, or Washington is a trust fund nigger.Remember that the next time you're impressed by something they do. They put the cart before the horse: because of nepotism, it was always a foregone conclusion that they were going to do SOMETHING because they can make something terrible and have it promoted through their (dad's) connections or their own connections which they only have because of a lifetime of dadmoney paying for them to live in hip areas and go to hip parties and attend hip schools without having to worry about real life, or by simply using dadmoney to pay for social media signal boosting and knowing people who know how to manipulate the strings of the relevant scene/industry. Then, once they get something "recognized" (they also have enough dadmoney to keep pathetically throwing shit at the wall until it sticks, which often takes them years even despite all the dadmoney greasing the wheels), they are an established name in whatever scene/industry it is, and now all future projects have immediate credibility.98% of people who get published or have their art shown somewhere are doing something any random aspiring writer or art major could do, but skipping the crucial first step of "actually getting organically noticed," which is 98% of the difficulty of going from aspiring writer/artist to writer/artist. The remaining 2% is just continuing to churn shit out, that's the easy part because now when you go to a publisher or gallery you already have a portfolio and they will shrug and say "I presume this is fine, sure, we'll publish you."Layer this on itself for a few years and you have a portfolio. This is the backstory of nearly all major writers and artists in the last century. New York Jews originally used the technique for themselves, in the early century, but then it caught on generally and is now the only way to do anything in America. American culture is made entirely out of nepotism networks.Date a rich Jewish girl from New York some time, if you randomly mention you have an invention for an automatic ass-scratcher she'll tell you she can introduce you to another Jew she knows through another Jew who could finance it, and you can bypass the usual channels that normalplebs have to go through to get a meeting with him because she'll just get you an informal in person one. Jews live and breathe this kind of behavior so much they don't even notice they do it, so they are kind of being honest when you criticize them for it and they go "What? I'm not doing anything everybody else doesn't do." They really mean it, they are serious.
>>25473097He translates from Russian, French, German, Italian, and Turkish. He has published one or two French translations of Jonathan Littell. He has mostly published Russian translation of Vladimir Sorokin. He has a German translation of Schattenfroh coming out this year. He has an Italian translation coming out soon, and he famously got into a twitter spat over the translation quality of an unpublished translation of Turkish novel and said the translation was so bad that he and was going to write a new and get it published. He says French is his best language, and he said on reddit that for all the other languages he needs extensive help in understanding context, idiom, deeper meaning, etc. beyond a literal translation. So he literally follows the P&V method for most of his works where he shits out a literal translation, re-edits it for "readability" in English, and then consults with an expert on whether or not he missed anything in his translation. I wouldn't be surprised if Max has shit on P&V translations, yet his process is more convoluted than theirs!
