Ideally, you would want to... «Through the Window»
Oksident5 марта 2017Ideally, you would want to understand every period reference – for instance, to Trafalgar pudding, or Ignorantine friars, or Mathieu Laensberg – without needing to flick downwards or onwards to footnotes. Finally, if you want the book in ‘English’, what sort of English do you choose? Put simply, on the novel’s first page, do you want the schoolboy Charles Bovary’s trousers to be held up by braces, or do you want his pants to be held up by suspenders? The decisions, and the coloration, are irrevocable.
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