Hero of Our Time: New Translations?

[pjs]

I've seen Hitchens review in the Atlantic. He doesn't really deal with the
quality of the translation per se. More of his thoughts on the novel

Peter.

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Craig Cravens wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:26:07 -0500
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> Christopher Hitchens does.  Check out his review in the latest Atlantic.  Not
> on line, unfortunately.
>
> Craig
>
>
> On May 19, 2005, at 10:11 AM, pjs wrote:
>
> > Anyone know anything about the new translations of Hero of Our Time?
> >
> > There's one translated by Hugh Alpin with and intro by Doris Lessing, and
> > one translated by Marian Schwartz with an intro by Gary Shteyngart (and a
> > "slacker-friendly" cover).
> >
> > Any opinions? I was going to go with the Nabokov, but I thought, well, why
> > not ask?
> >
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