Goethe affinities6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Weird performance, terrible novel, poor quality Many thanks for creating an audio representation for Goethe beyond Werther and Faust! Please do Wilhelm Meister, the conversations with Eckerman, or even metamorphosis of plants, and I will eagerly purchase immediately! ![]() It definitely bolstered rather than subtracted from the presentation of this already outstanding novel. At first I cringed to hear the Edward accent, but by the end I was converted. But with this expert presentation of a slightly obscure Goethe has swayed my opinion: I can now decidedly stomach character accents if they are tactful and tasteful while remaining distinctly discernible, and also coherently maintained throughout the text, which is very much the case with Brant's performance here. Sometimes such flat readings can make denser and older texts a little tougher to discern, but I've always "read" audiobooks as a means to crush more text than I could ever find time for irl, not for casual dramatic entertainment I want to to have my own reactions evinced by the text, not by the reading of the text. ![]() I have long been a firm adherent to the rule that audiobooks should strictly remain as verbal representations of a text, rather than interpretive performances, by which I mean to imply- no dramatic character accents please just read the text, with at most a mild emotive injection where the printed punctuation calls for it. ![]()
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