I can’t read Les Miserable in its original French (despite 5 years of high school French class), but I love it in translation. Does that make me functionally illiterate?
Victor Hugo was born to make Tolstoy seem laconic. Tolstoy can be prolix, but Austerlitz and Borodino are critical to the action of the novel. Waterloo has a minor plot justification inn Les Miserable, but most of the twelve chapters on Waterloo are just Hugo's excuse for spinning his theories.
…with expository sections interspersed with sections that directly advance the plot. I quite liked that about the Grapes of Wrath. I'm not sure if I take issue with the exposition/advancement ratio in Les Miserable, or if I feel less of a connection with the period Les Miserables is set in. For children or not, I certainly won't hold The Princess Bride up as example of greatness. I would claim that the fact that…
我没法读《悲惨世界》（Les Miserables）的法文原版（尽管我在高中上了 5 年法语课），但我很喜欢它的译本。这算不算是功能性文盲？
I can’t read Les Miserable in its original French (despite 5 years of high school French class), but I love it in translation. Does that make me functionally illiterate?
维克多·雨果生来就是为了让托尔斯泰显得言简意赅的。托尔斯泰虽然有时罗里吧嗦，但奥斯特里茨战役和博罗季诺战役对小说的情节推进至关重要。《悲惨世界》里写滑铁卢勉强有一点点推动剧情的作用，但滑铁卢那整整十二章，大部分不过是雨果用来长篇大论兜售自己理论的借口罢了。
Victor Hugo was born to make Tolstoy seem laconic. Tolstoy can be prolix, but Austerlitz and Borodino are critical to the action of the novel. Waterloo has a minor plot justification inn Les Miserable, but most of the twelve chapters on Waterloo are just Hugo's excuse for spinning his theories.
…穿插着说明性段落和直接推动剧情发展的章节。《愤怒的葡萄》里这一点我很喜欢。我不太确定自己是对《悲惨世界》（Les Miserables）里说理与叙事的比例有意见，还是对《悲惨世界》所处的那个时代缺乏共鸣。不管它是不是写给小孩子看的，我肯定不会把《公主新娘》（The Princess Bride）当作伟大小说的典范。我认为…
…with expository sections interspersed with sections that directly advance the plot. I quite liked that about the Grapes of Wrath. I'm not sure if I take issue with the exposition/advancement ratio in Les Miserable, or if I feel less of a connection with the period Les Miserables is set in. For children or not, I certainly won't hold The Princess Bride up as example of greatness. I would claim that the fact that…