What's the best translation of this? Penguin or Serpent's Tail? - /lit/ (#24536495) [Archived: 370 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:58:58 AM No.24536495
disquiet
disquiet
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 1:19:29 PM No.24536988
Bump
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:46:31 PM No.24537842
Serpents tail as a name sounds cooler so that. as cute as penguins are serpents are menacing
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 8:49:35 PM No.24537847
>>24536495 (OP)
Penguin, by far.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 9:37:23 PM No.24537943
I understand such questions, but I doubt anyone would be qualified to answer. For that you'd need to be a fluent Portuguese and English speaker and had extensively compared all the different translations.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:19:14 PM No.24538099
>>24537943
You could just do what 99% of people do. Search for the topic on the internet and then provide the answer in the most confident manner in the world.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:23:36 PM No.24538116
it's a meme in either translation, you don't have to bother reading it.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:33:06 PM No.24538135
>>24536495 (OP)
Penguin always has the best translations. They're a titan in the space for a reason.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:36:14 PM No.24538141
I read this shitty book once at school, in portuguese. It's not worth reading
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 10:37:04 PM No.24538144
>>24538141
you're soulless
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 11:05:36 PM No.24538214
>>24536495 (OP)
Reminder that his book is a mockery of misery and none of the schizoid doomer ramblings applies to real life
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:31:29 AM No.24539470
>>24538116
Exactly
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:47:22 AM No.24539716
>>24538135
>Penguin always has the best translations
Objectively false
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:48:58 AM No.24539717
Why does this book make /lit/ seethe so much
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:07:31 AM No.24539750
>>24539717
zoomer newfags hate everything with a soul
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:33:05 PM No.24541139
>>24538141
estudaste português na universidade? Pelo que me lembro pessoa no secundário era so Mensagem e heteronimos
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:43:40 PM No.24541180
>>24536495 (OP)
doesn't matters

it is the typical "miserable than thou" pessimist trash. what a dumb motherfucker. in reality he probably visited whores. he even had a girlfriend and a lot of friends. pessoa met crowley, ffs. this thing about "oh le heckin tortured genius" are just marketing campaigns.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:46:22 PM No.24541189
>>24541180
it's especially pessimistic because he split off different sides of himself into different alteregos and explored those sides of himself in those guises. it's not him being a hypocrite, it's him writing the dark stuff he felt as this guy rather than the other stuff as all the other guys
there's loads of non-pessimistic pessoa, this is just the one that young edgy men like because it's the sad one
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:31:27 AM No.24541645
I'm learning Portuguese just to read it. You and I are not the same.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 1:10:11 AM No.24541737
>>24541139
Você é falante nativo?
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 1:12:18 AM No.24541744
>>24541645
As a Portuguese speaker, this book is a bit dense good luck!
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:56:29 AM No.24542270
>>24541744
I already know French and Spanish so I hope that will help
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:09:02 PM No.24544138
>>24537943
Bro Portuguese is really common