Recommendations of English translations of Russian novels

[Patricia Chaput]

For those interested in English translation of Russian literature I
strongly recommend the book by Rachel May, The Translator in the Text: On
Reading Russian Literature in English, Northwestern U. Press, 1994.

        Pat Chaput
        Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
        Harvard University

On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, KEVIN CHRISTIANSON wrote:

> I too would be interested in hearing other Seelangers' evaluations of the
> various translations of Russian fiction which have been done into English in
> recent years, particularly Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov,
> Crime and Punishment, and The Idiot as well as Tolstoy's War and Peace and Ann
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> Karenina.  Oxford UP has translations of these works but I'm not sure how good
> they are compared to others.  Besides using British idioms, British
> translations often can be rather polite--overly polite and Victorian sounding
> which, I'm told, is not consistent with the original Russian versions.
>
> Any recommendations or comparisons by those in the know would be greatly
> appreciated by novices like myself. Thanks.
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