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daydream_believer
04-05-06, 06:21 PM
I've begun reading the Way by Swann's, but I'm not sure I'm reading the best translation. It's good, but is it accurate?

I'm reading the Lydia Davis translation, Penguin 2002. Can I do better than this?

It translate the title as "In Search of Lost Time" - is "In Remembrance of Things Past" more accurate? (I think it is at least more poetic)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

(Is it hopeless to read the translation? I had already concluded such with Nietzsche, and my German improves daily).