The Brothers K for the 21st Century.

December 9, 2018 by 16 Comments

Check out this book cover. (Thanks, Jeff!)

Comments

  1. Y says
    December 9, 2018 at 8:54 pm

    The Bros Karamazov. Too obvious, I know.

  2. SFReader says
    December 9, 2018 at 9:33 pm

    The novel’s name could be literally translated as Nigga Bros, you know…

  3. languagehat says
    December 9, 2018 at 10:17 pm

    Blackface Bros, rather.

  4. SFReader says
    December 9, 2018 at 10:52 pm

    It probably was just “blackface” back in Dostoyevsky days. But in 21st century it means something else

    чернома́зый • (černomázyj) m anim (genitive чернома́зого, nominative plural чернома́зые, genitive plural чернома́зых, feminine чернома́зая)

    (offensive, ethnic slur) wog, nigger (an offensive term for a dark-skinned person, an immigrant from Central Asia or the Caucasus)

  5. Y says
    December 9, 2018 at 11:34 pm

    Dostoyevsky’s notes for the novel are really something.

  6. AG says
    December 10, 2018 at 3:44 am

    That’s not even the worst one!? … Are these a joke? https://literatipulp.com/2017/07/11/totally-real-horrible-book-covers/

  7. SFReader says
    December 10, 2018 at 4:07 am

    Check “Sister Carrie” cover

  8. Y says
    December 10, 2018 at 4:08 am

    Oh dear Lord.

  9. Y says
    December 10, 2018 at 4:14 am

    The Brothers Karatemazov.

  10. Jonathan Morse says
    December 10, 2018 at 6:56 am

    And for covering all bases,

    https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/10/28/the-historical-novel-has-something-for-everybody-hats-cheekbones-nazis-and-a-national-geographic-breast-detour-through-asia/

  11. David Marjanović says
    December 10, 2018 at 8:52 am

    dafuq

  12. Rodger C says
    December 10, 2018 at 9:04 am

    Wonder what Thomas a Kmepis would say?

  13. Stu Clayton says
    December 10, 2018 at 9:53 am

    He might say: “I was born in Kempen in the Rhineland.[4] My surname at birth was Hemerken, literally “hammerkin” (little hammer). My father Johann was a blacksmith and my mother Gertrud was a schoolmistress.”

    I didn’t know that “Kempis” refers to Kempen, a small city not far from Düsseldorf.

  14. languagehat says
    December 10, 2018 at 10:10 am

    The snarky captions are great. “Who’s an idiot now?”

  15. Peter Erwin says
    December 10, 2018 at 10:35 am

    Love those interior illustrations, too (part of what makes it a “Platinum edition”, dontcha know).

    I mean, I have to admit I’ve never read The Brothers Karamazov, but I’m inclined to doubt it includes much in the way of 19th Century American Indians, Japanese women in (19th C) European dresses playing the piano, or black women with dreadlocks in tank tops gathering flowers.

  16. Alex K. says
    December 11, 2018 at 4:08 am

    “I’m inclined to doubt it includes much in the way of 19th Century American Indians…”

    Svidrigailov in America, a sequel.

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