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Title: this translation is insufferable
Review: This translation is difficult--difficult to read without gagging, that is. It's extremely stilted and affected. Every sentence reads something like this:"When the child Kristin was seven years old, it so fell out that she got leave to go with her father..."I don't have a problem with archaic language per se, but the translators of this version have no ear for language of any kind, in my opinion, and so this archaic prose never achieves any kind of naturalness.Part of the problem may be that the translators never met an archaism they didn't like. In nearly EVERY line of the book Kristin "must needs" do this or would "nowise that" or so-and-so "was always for making merry."It was so overdone--and so badly done--that I had trouble focusing on the story instead of on the irritating prose.If you're interested in style and prose quality as well as plot, don't even think about buying this version.... get the Penguin translation instead.
