The book by Kurvitz, the disco Elysium guy, got a translation recently from fans who created a translation team. It’s free and you can get it from the subreddit. It even includes bonus material in the form of articles from an Estonian magazine and art made by the team.
The prose is excellent and just feels good inside your head as you read it. It honestly reminds me of “We, the drowned”, another excellent book.
Has anyone else here read it? I’d love to discuss.
Link Coward, you are only linking a man!
Also, is there anyway to support Kurvitz and even the translation team? I suspect Kurvitz has not had a great time since ZA/UM broke apart.
Based reference https://reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/comments/12ysbl1/sacred_and_terrible_air_full_professional/
I believe the team addresses this in the post
Kurvitz has a donation page of some sort, I don’t recall the details.
I just downloaded it. Gonna put it on my e-reader and put Murderbot Diaries on the back burner for a bit. Holy shit.
EDIT: Read just half a page and the prose is already fantastic. I'm so happy this happened.
Right?! The way he describes the media reaction sensation of missing children and the “before/after” dichotomy that is created by particularly evocative versions really hit hard.
This is amazing, I had no idea this happened. I had given up on there being an english translation anytime soon.
Do I need to play Disco Elysium first?
Everyone in the reddit comments is saying it's necessary.
I haven't read the book but I've read about the book; and I played the game. The book was written before the game so I can't imagine playing the game is a required prerequisite. But given how the game gets into the lore of the universe Kurvitz and his friends built, you will probably get a lot more out of the book if you play the game first.
I think it’s a good idea, but reading up on the setting could probably substitute.
It was written before DE, so I suspect not. haven't read it yet though.
Being familiar with the setting helps, but there is a glossary in the back.
SP: A certain innocence
spoiler
Part of me wonders if Ambrosius Saint-Miro is a false innocence. We only have his word that he's an innocence to go off, and his speaking of Ernö Pasternak as the real deal is fishy considering Disco later establishes that Pasternak was a false innocence.
P. 124
spoiler
“It’s your girls who talk like that,” the cytoplasm whispers softly in Zygismunt’s ear. The fir trees sway, and the Pale is dim but seductively soft. “These are your girls, girls don’t believe in anything, all girls are bourgeois, Zigi.”
Was the infamous "Are women bourgeoise" check failure a callback to this?!
