Why I like my work

[blamebrampton]

Brammers: Not having read War and Peace is one thing, but not having read Hamlet? It only takes an hour and a half!

Workmate: And it rhymes!

Comments

[banbury.livejournal.com]

I am lucky - I'm a quick reader: it took me about two days to read War and Peace, I don't remember how much it took to read Hamlet in Russian (certainly less, and then I've seen four or more performances, including the four-hour one, couple in English and even in French), but when I'd tried to read it in English - that was tricky, I was buried in dictionaries :-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's one of the plays that is better performed. Tolstoy makes me wish I had enough time to learn Russian. I like War and Peace, but I love Anna Karenin, and I feel as though there are subtleties of language I will only ever learn when I can read them for myself, alas.