For all of her ghastly faults, Constance Garnett's translations of #Tolstoy include comically frequent repetition of the phrase "hateful and loathsome."
That's it. That's the post. It's already in the public domain, but here I give it to you anyway:
"Hateful and loathsome."
“Tolstoy, who spoiled much of his work by argumentative moralizing, tells us in What Is Art? that ‘the business of art lies just in this: to make that understood and felt which in the form of an argument might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.’”
— Bertram Brooker (1936)
14/12/2025 - 12:11
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🇷🇺 The enemy occupied #Tolstoy and advanced near #Yampil and in #Siversk
mY nAtIonALiSm is GoOd NaTioNaLiSm - Jesse Welles
@CFord noted
#alttext "Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, a slavish submission to those who hold power. Patriotism is #slavery.
Leo #Tolstoy "The kingdom of God: and peace essays"
Or, as Mark #Twain said: (#Patriotism is) 'The last refuge of scoundrels'.
The Freedomites in 1902-03 began adopting an often raw Vegan or Fruitrarian diet, releasing their draught animals "to the grace of God" so that they would no longer be dominated by human oppression, destroyed their own property to protest luxury and vanity, rejected the institution of marriage, and began marching naked and engaging in religious communal nudity to be more like Adam and Eve before the Fall.
#doukhobors #Tolstoy #christianity #vegan #nudism #naked #pacifism #religion
The #Aussie giving War & Peace a 'bogan' remake
"Just then, Prince Andrei rocked up to Anna's joint. He was the pregnant sheila's hubby. Like his missus, he was pretty good looking himself."
Those lines are straight from a new translation of Leo #Tolstoy's epic novel #WarandPeace, set in the world of Russian high society in the early 19th century.
Except this is a "bogan" version translated by #AnderLouis, the pen name of a Melbourne IT worker who moonlights as a writer.
He's poured a metaphorical can of Australian beer over the novel by converting Tolstoy's prose into a lingo that wouldn't sound out of place in the popular Aussie sitcom Kath & Kim.
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