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Title: a double translation is (much) worse than none
Review: i have not read the book in german, as i cannot, and i found my english translation to be unreadable altogether...critics seem to have begun hating it for the explicit references it makes to sex and drugs, the two mainstay themes (apart from money, the easy winner) of the gogo early seventies that brought us this pretentious flik, along with hordes of equally unbearable yuppies...(preceded by equally equally unbearable hippies, who also embraced the thing, as their perceived bourgeois opponents couldn't stand it) if the book is no better than the film, it is my opinion that there is little to be understood, in spite of the many meanings that have been forced upon it...the movie is provocative, but i have to regard it as a a badjazz rendition of what was never anything significantly better than a bad book. excuse me, but hesse gets a nobel, and nabokov gets the breeze? so much for stockholm!
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