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Perhaps I'm still not at that time and place in my life where I'd appreciate Siddhartha. I found it thoroughly nauseating. And the forced translation of Sanskri
by unmole 8y ago
Perhaps I'm still not at that time and place in my life where I'd appreciate Siddhartha. I found it thoroughly nauseating. And the forced translation of Sanskrit idioms was especially cringe inducing.
- svat 8y agoI haven't read Siddhartha, and expect I won't like it, but perhaps the Sanskrit idioms translate better into German? (https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/sanskrit-and-german/ https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/sanskrit-and-ger...) Did you read the book in German? Or if not, which translation (Wikipedia lists at least six: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siddhartha_(novel)&oldid=856221176#English_translations https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siddhartha_(novel...)?
- unmole 8y agoI read the Hilda Rosner's 1951 English translation. Maybe I'll give one of the newer translations a try.
- icc97 8y agoI didn't find it nauseating, it's an interesting tale, but I'll agree that it didn't make any profound influence on me beyond any other fiction book that I've read. Perhaps reading it as an eBook on my phone, means that I didn't take it in well enough.