Hero of Our Time: New Translations?

[colkitto]

 Christopher Hitchens' brother Peter is a better, shrewder writer and
 commentator, and there was a priceless article by him some years ago
 describing Christopher's apparent about-face where he said

 "Something has changed, but it is not my brother"

 or words to that effect.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Cravens" <svejk at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Hero of Our Time: New Translations?
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>> Yeah, and his writing isn't even up to his usual inebriate standard.
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>> On May 19, 2005, at 10:28 AM, pjs wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>> From: Craig Cravens <svejk at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU>
>>>> Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
>>>>     <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
>>>> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>>>> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Hero of Our Time: New Translations?
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter Scotto
>>>>> Mount Holyoke College
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>> Craig Cravens
>> Fellow of Czech Studies
>>
>> Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
>> Calhoun 415, F3600
>> The University of Texas at Austin
>> Austin, TX 78713
>> Telephone:  512-232-9125
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>> http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/slavic/people/faculty_pages/cravens/
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