Good Translation of _Odin den'...

[Judith E Kalb]

Dear colleagues,
A quick correction to Professor Kobets's email: the 1963 translation was by
Ralph Parker.  Kalb provided the introduction (he was also instrumental in
getting this work published in the US).  The introduction, which I just
shared with my students as this edition is not readily available, provides
an intriguing glimpse into the period when this book came out, from the
perspective of a Russian-speaking American journalist then posted in
Moscow.  It's worth noting re translations that the Willetts translation is
more complete and perhaps provides a better feel for the language of the
original.
Best wishes,
Judith Kalb

At 02:26 PM 12/3/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Peter,
>I found a translation by H. T. Willetts (2001) better than the one by Marvin
>L. Kalb (1963).
>You can also check Klimoff's collection of critical essays about "One Day"
>and see which translation is preferred by most of the scholars.
>Klimoff, Alexis. "The Sober Eye: Ivan Denisovich and the Peasant
>Perspective." One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Critical Companion.
>Ed. Alexis Klimoff. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1997.
>Good luck,
>Svitlana Kobets
>





Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Director of the Russian Program
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
phone: (803) 777-9615
e-mail: jkalb at sc.edu

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