Translations of Pushkin, Tolstoy?

[Russell Valentino]

I used EO as part of a class on literature and translation this term. We
read Falen, Hofstadter, and Nabokov, with appropriate ancillary materials
and glances at Arndt and Johnston. Impressive that these are all in print.
They all have intriguing choices and highlights, and they provide different
methods of exploring the study of language, poetry, Pushkin, (Nabokov), and
the "original" (only that because the translations exist). If you have to
pick one, and the class is not about translation per se, then I recommend
the Falen, which is consistent and often more than that.

Russell

At 08:58 03.05.2005, you wrote:
>Anyone have any strong feelings about the Johnston vs. the Falen
>translation of E.O. for a survey course in 19th-century Russian
>literature?  My sense (after a cursory inspection) is that the Johnston
>hews more closely to the original while the Falen "reads better."  Other
>suggestions?
>
>How about _Death of Ivan Illich_?  Any suggestions there? Anyone seen the
>Pasternak-Slater translation?
>
>Peter Scotto
>Mount Holyoke College
>
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Russell Valentino
Associate Professor
Program in Russian
Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
University of Iowa
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